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Book SynopsisTheories, Technologies, Instrumentalities of Color is the outcome of a workshop, held in Leuven, Belgium, in May 2000.
Trade ReviewSaunders characterizes the book as a movement from a 'homogeneous, hierarchical' to a 'heterogeneous, peas-in-a-pod' understanding of color, and, indeed, the profusion of approaches contained in the volume indicates that there are many ways to approachthe subject. -- Theresa Levitt * Groppi *
Saunders characterizes the book as a movement from a 'homogeneous, hierarchical' to a 'heterogeneous, peas-in-a-pod' understanding of color, and, indeed, the profusion of approaches contained in the volume indicates that there are many ways to approach the subject. -- Theresa Levitt * Groppi *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Color Categories are Not Universal: Replications and New Evidence Chapter 5 The Munsell Constraint Chapter 6 The Roots/Routes of Color Term Reference Chapter 7 Why Don't Children Name or Draw What They "See?" Chapter 8 Color Perception: Processing of Wavelength Information and Conscious Experience of Color Chapter 9 Getting in Touch with the World Chapter 10 Contrast Colors: A Powerful and Disturbing Phenomenon Chapter 11 A Revision of the Grammar of Reality: Readable Technologies Chapter 12 Attributes of Color and Elementaristic Misconceptions of Color Representations Chapter 13 Chromatic Language Games and their Congeners Chapter 14 Imprinted on the Mind: Passive and Active in Aristotle's Theory of Perception Chapter 15 Aristotle's Non-Reductive, Anthropocentric Materialism Chapter 16 The Colors in the Drops: Roger Bacon's Explanation of the Rainbow Chapter 17 Mirrors: Truth and Error Chapter 18 Newton and Goethe: Experimenting on Colors Chapter 19 Goethe as an Exploratory Experimentalist: A Source of New Insight? Chapter 20 Was there Ever a Physiological Opponent Color Code? Chapter 21 Language Forms the Internal Color Space Chapter 22 From Eye to Machine: Shifting Authority in Color Measurement Chapter 23 The Coming-to-be of Color Spaces Chapter 24 Color Vision: Psychophysics and Physiology- a Brief Historical Sketch Chapter 25 The Phenomenal Color "Space" is Not a Space Chapter 26 Bibliography Chapter 27 Authors Index Chapter 28 Subject Index Chapter 29 About the Contributors
