Colors and Their Character

Benjamin Jan Kouwer

ISBN 10: 9401182353 / ISBN 13: 9789401182355

Published by Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Jan 1949, 1949

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In everyday life there does not seem to be anything unusual in speaking of the 'character' of colors. We may speak of a delicate blue, a vivid red, a lively yellow, a naive green. Colors mean something to us; they have a kind of personality, more or less to be compared with the human personality. The ancient Egyptian word ~wn for 'color' later came to mean also the character of a living being (8z, 414). Mantegazza even speaks of the 'soul' of a color. A fine example of the intensity with which colors may be experienced is the following quotation from Sartre (204, 25). An artist coming from a cafe enters the sunlit street: 'toutes les couleurs s'etaient allumees en meme temps et lui faisaient fete, comme en 29, c'etait le bal de la Redoute, le Camaval, la Fan tasia; les gens et les obj ets s' etaient congestionnes; le violet d'une robe se violaSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 208 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Colors and Their Character
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Jan 1949
• Publication Date: 1949
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9401182353
• ISBN 13: 9789401182355
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 12D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 12 millimeters depth
• Weight: 324 grams

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Synopsis

In everyday life there does not seem to be anything unusual in speaking of the "character" of colors. We may speak of a delicate blue, a vivid red, a lively yellow, a naive green. Colors mean something to us; they have a kind of personality, more or less to be compared with the human personality. The ancient Egyptian word ~wn for "color" later came to mean also the character of a living being (8z, 414). Mantegazza even speaks of the "soul" of a color. A fine example of the intensity with which colors may be experienced is the following quotation from Sartre (204, 25). An artist coming from a cafe enters the sunlit street: "toutes les couleurs s'etaient allumees en meme temps et lui faisaient fete, comme en 29, c'etait le bal de la Redoute, le Camaval, la Fan­ tasia; les gens et les obj ets s' etaient congestionnes; le violet d'une robe se viola