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Title The Spirit of colors : the art of Karl Gerstner : nine picture chapters and selected essays / edited by Henri Stierlin ; translated from the German by Dennis Q. Stephenson ; foreword by Grace Glueck ; contributions by François Fricker and Max Lüscher.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1981]
©1981

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  709.24 G383S    Check Shelf
Description 225 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Contents Foreword / Grace Glueck -- Annotated biography -- Essays. Is constructive art at an end? Or at its beginning? -- Conception-Perception: 15 reflections on a proposition of Max Bill -- The Precision of sensation -- The spirit of colors: Goethe's Theory of Colors (The precision of sensation, 2) -- Color and the colors (The precision of sensation, 3) -- Pictures. 1. Aperspectives -- Aperspective 3 -- 2. Serial pictures -- The golden-sectioned pillar (Hommage à Le Corbusier) -- Diagon 31² Red/green -- 3. Carro pictures -- Carro 64 (Do-it-yourself) -- 4. Metachromes -- Parameters for making pictures -- 5. Apparatus -- Prism picture no. 6 -- Lens picture no. 15 -- Auto vision -- Atmos-Sphere (E-Motion-Picture) -- Times Square -- Color organ -- 6. AlgoRhythms -- AlgoRhythm 1 (Do-it-yourself) -- François Fricker: A surprising characteristic of inscribed circles -- 7. Color sounds -- Color sound 7 (Homage to the homage to the square) -- Max Lüscher: Color sound 15 -- Color sound 1C -- 8. Color forms -- The color-form continuum (The precision of sensation, 4) -- 9. Color lines -- Color lines: Instead of coming to the point -- Editor's postscript.
Note Translation of: Der Geist der Farbe.
Title page covers to leaves.
Subject Gerstner, Karl.
Color in art.
Added Author Gerstner, Karl.
Stierlin, Henri.
Added Title Art of Karl Gerstner.
ISBN 0262070847: $39.95
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