1981 Karl Gerstner THE SPIRIT OF COLORS Swiss Design + Color Theory 225-pg Book
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THE SPIRIT OF COLORS: THE ART OF KARL GERSTNER 1981 English-Language First Edition � 225 pages, 140 illustrations [70 in color] and 2 fold-outs Karl Gerstner & Henri Stierlin [Editor]: THE SPIRIT OF COLORS: THE ART OF KARL GERSTNER. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1981. First English-language edition. Square quarto. Black cloth stamped in gray. Photographically printed dust jacket. 225 pp. 140 illustrations, 70 in color. 2 fold-outs. Dust jacket shows very faint wear. A nearly fine copy. � "I cannot see why sensation should be less precise than thought. The scientist designs conceptual models, the artist perceptual models."-- Karl Gerstner 7.5 x 9.75 hardcover book with 225 pages, 140 illustrations [70 in color] and 2 fold-outs. � illustrating Gerstner's theories about color and form. Swiss artist and designer, Karl Gerstner draws on artistic literary, and scientific sources, as well as on his own studio work to investigate the basic visual elements of color and form. Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, Gerstner explores the ideas of continuous and evenly measured changes in the three dimensions of color - hue, tone, and saturation. The essays include: The Spirit of Color: The Farbenlehre of Goethe; Conception --Perception: Fifteen Aspects to a Sentence of Max Bill; The Precision of Sensation; and Is Constructive Art at an End? Or its beginning?
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