A Companion to Color

List of Figures ix
List of Tables xiv
Notes on Contributors xv
Preface xxi
Series Editor's Preface xxiii
Acknowledgements xxv

Introduction xxvii
Judith Mottram

Part 1 Global Colour 1

1 Wittgenstein and the Conundrum of Theorising Colour 3
Paul Smith

2 Indigo, Blueness and the Moral Economy of Colour in South Asia 21
Jagjeet Lally

3 Colours of Contemporary Indigenous Art in Australia 36
Diana Young

4 The Chinese Five-element Five-colour Theory 55
Vien Cheung and Jinghong Wang

Part 2 Colour, Science, and Theory 73

5 Preference for Coloured Stimuli and the Colours of Art 75
Professor Anna Franklin

6 Art and the Curiosities of Color Vision 85
Kimberly A. Jameson

7 Colour Theory for Children 98
Alexandra Loske

8 Coloured Lighting and Perceived Atmosphere 113
Giulio Palma and Christoph Witzel

9 The Reproduction of Colour and Texture 130
Carinna Parraman

Part 3 Materiality 147

10 Material Science and Art in the Twenty-first Century 149
Stephen Westland

11 Colour and Materiality in the Victorian Age 158
Charlotte Ribeyrol

12 Eliot Elisofon: the Materiality of Colour in Photography, Technicolor Film and the Archive of Moulin Rouge (1952) 174
Liz Watkins

13 Art Historical and Scientific Perspectives on Pigments and Dyes in Ukiyo-e Prints 192
Rhiannon Paget

14 The Rediscovery of the Lost Art of Lustre 207
Isabelle Gadoin

15 On the Changing Color of Paintings 223
Jennifer L. Mass

Part 4 Naturalism and Autonomy 243

16 Cezanne, Matisse and the Autonomy of Pictorial Colour 245
Paul Smith

17 Bauhaus Colour and its Legacy 262
Michael White

18 Color Field Painting: From Modernist Critique to Cultural Integration 278
Kenji Kajiya

19 On the Intersection Between Color and the Spiritual in Interwar German Art and Architecture 292
Deborah Ascher Barnstone

20 Red in the Art of William Holman Hunt 308
Keren Rosa Hammerschlag

Part 5 The Environment 321

21 Adrian Stokes: Colour, Form and Materiality in the Architecture of Venice 323
Stephen Kite

22 Le Corbusier's Use of Colour in His Buildings 339
Tim Benton

23 Color Gradients in Modern Abstract Sculpture 356
Whitney Davis

24 Ruskin and the Science of Colour 374
Sandra Kemp and Victoria Kemp

25 The Derived Palette for Architecture 393
Fiona McLachlan

26 James Turrell and the Color of Light 406
Matthew Simms

Part 6 The Market 421

27 The Symbolism of Colours and Colour Value in the Art Market 423
Luc Renneboog and Yuexin Li

28 Colour in Residential Interiors During the British Interwar Period 441
Dr Becky Gooby

29 Colour in Traditional Textile Clothes from Thailand 460
Disaya Chudasri and Warin Boonyaputthipong

30 Color Forecasting and the Color Ensemble in Everyday Fashion, Design, and Decoration 477
Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Index 494