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What are some good books on color theory? I mean from a philosophic perspective, not a scientific one.
Is "A New Practical Treatise on the Three Primitive Colours", the source of this picture, any good?
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>>9258420
This, and Point and Line to Plane is good
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Goethe.
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>>9258420
why would you be interested in colour? that's gay. that's like being interested in grass
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might be a bit "scientific" but has good example and theory
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>>9258444
came here to post this
trips of truth beat me to the punch
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>>9258420
Goethe's "Law of Simultaneous Color Contrast" and "Theory of Colors" are the first real Color Theory text.
Jospeh Alber's "Interaction of Color" is probably the most comonly used text in Art Schools, its most images and very much focussed on practical uses of color. But I wouldn't call it scientific, just "applied".
Johannes Itten's "Elements of Color" is a similar early modernist text.
David Batchelor's "Chromophobia" is about why modern society has embraced whites, greys and browns over highly saturated color.
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>>9258444
This, and don't forget Wittgenstein's response in "On Colour"
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Might as well read Schopenhauer if you're gonna read Goethe.
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