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Color Theorists / Philosophers

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Goethe’s Color Theory

Conran on Color

Tory Burch in Color

Primary Sources: Selected writings on color from Aristotle to Albers

Color History and Meaning - Databases

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Color Theorists / Philosophers

Color Theorists:

Jacob Christoph Le Blon (1667-1741)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Michel Chevreul (1786-1889)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932)
Albert Munsell (1858-1918)
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Johannes Itten (1888-1967)
Max Lüscher (1923-2017)

Image: Goethe's Symmetric Symbolic Colour Wheel 1810

EBOOKS / ARTICLES

Goethe's Theory of Colours (eBook from The Project Gutenberg)
Translated from the German: with notes by Charles Lock Eastlake, R.A., F.R.S. Celio Calcagnini. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1840
The Illusory Theory of Colours: An Anti-Realist Theory (article by Barry Maund)
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Dialectica, 2006-01-01, Vol.60 (3), p.245-268
DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-8361.2006.01058.x

BOOKS IN THE FIT LIBRARY

Color by Paul J. Zelanski; Mary Pat Fisher
Publication Date: 2008
Conran on Color by Terence Conran
Publication Date: 2015
Missoni Art Colour by Luciano Caramel (Editor, Editor); Emma Zanella (Editor); Luca Missoni (Editor)
Publication Date: 2016
Primary Sources: Selected writings on color from Aristotle to Albers by Patricia Sloane (Editor)
Publication Date: 1990
Principles of Color Technology by Roy S. Berns
Publication Date: 2000
Theory of Colours [Goethe] by Charles Lock Eastlake (Translator); Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publication Date: 1970
Tory Burch by Tory Burch; Nandini D'Souza Wolfe (Editor); Anna Wintour (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2014
Tricia Guild: Decorating with Color by Tricia Guild; James Merrell (Photographer); Amanda Back (Text by)
Publication Date: 2015

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