WIT Press

Colour in Art, Design and Nature

Edited By: C.A. Brebbia, Wessex Institute of Technology, UK, C. Greated, University of Edinburgh, UK; M.W. Collins, (Formerly Brunel University, UK)

Price

$133.00 (free shipping)

ISBN

978-1-84564-568-7

eISBN

978-1-84564-569-4

Pages

154

Transaction Series

WIT Transactions on State-of-the-art in Science and Engineering

Transaction Volume

49

Published

2011

Format

Hardback

This book is ambitiously inter-disciplinary. Its eleven works, in full colour, form a striking contribution to the commonwealth of colour studies and to a possible unification of C. P. Snow's Two Cultures.

Colour and inter-disciplinarity go hand in hand. This so often involves the authors leaving the comfort zone of their original specialty and striving for excellence in another. The personal story of Franziska Schenk is but one good example.

Colour in Art, Design and Nature may be divided into four main sections, defined in terms of the authors themselves. First, there are two contributions by biologists.  Second, the largest section is by practicing artists.  Third, there are two engineering-based contributions.  Finally, two contributions address some of the historical proponents of colour theory and art.

It seems that our perceptions of aesthetics and beauty must be very flexible indeed so as to find absolute opposites equally fascinating. If so, it goes to show how wonderful are the construction and operation of the human brain. Does psychology win in the end? Does colour lead to a single culture?

Design and Nature IV
Design and Nature III
Design and Nature VI