Colors and Their Character

Name: Colors and Their Character
Author: Benjamin Jan Kouwer

A Psychological Study

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Paperback, 195 blz. | Engels

Springer Netherlands | 1949e druk, 1949

ISBN13: 9789401182355

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In everyday life there does not seem to be anything unusual in speaking of the "character" of colors. We may speak of a delicate blue, a vivid red, a lively yellow, a naive green. Colors mean something to us; they have a kind of personality, more or less to be compared with the human personality. The ancient Egyptian word ~wn for "color" later came to mean also the character of a living being (8z, 414). Mantegazza even speaks of the "soul" of a color. A fine example of the intensity with which colors may be experienced is the following quotation from Sartre (204, 25). An artist coming from a cafe enters the sunlit street: "toutes les couleurs s'etaient allumees en meme temps et lui faisaient fete, comme en 29, c'etait le bal de la Redoute, le Camaval, la Fan tasia; les gens et les obj ets s' etaient congestionnes; le violet d'une robe se viola

Specificaties

ISBN13:9789401182355

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Aantal pagina's:195

Uitgever:Springer Netherlands

Druk:1949

Hoofdrubriek:Mens en maatschappij, Psychologie

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I An Outline of Problems Pertaining to Color.- 1. The Naming of Color Impressions.- 2. Studies on the Experiencing of Colors.- 3. A Few Observations on Phenomenology.- II Experimental Research.- 1. Experimental Procedure.- 2. Discussion of the Results.- 3. The Color Character Applied.- Summary.- Appendix (Tables A–D).- Name Index.