| Maria Rzepinska History of color in the history of European painting Cracow 1983 Wydawnictwo Literackie 644s. o. cloth + wrappers p.bdb For. ca: 24.5x17 cm "History of Color is the only synthetic study of the history of painterly color in European art in the Polish literature. The book contains rich illustrative material, which is an excellent commentary to the issues raised in the text. The first part introduces the reader to theoretical problems, showing color in terms of physics, philosophy and art history. It covers the history of color from ancient times to the 18th century. It includes discussions of treatises by Leonardo da Vinci, Lomazzo and Bopschini. The second part presents the role and place of color in art from the 18th century to the 1960s. Much space is devoted to the contributions of painters, poets, art critics, e.g. Ruskin, Goethe, the Goncourt brothers.... The book also includes a chapter showing the problems of color in Polish thought on art of the 19th and 20th centuries." |
