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MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
179

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Subjects
Form perception, Color in art, Geometry

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Table of Contents

Thanks Page 6
Introduction Page 8
Chapter 1. The color universe Page 12
The earliest and the latest model
Chapter 2. Form systems Page 26
Nine miniature essays on the history of geometry
Euclidean geometry Page 28
The geometry of measure Page 30
Projective geometry Page 32
Coordinate geometry Page 34
Geometry as a universal law Page 36
Group theory Page 38
Non-Euclidean geometry Page 40
Topology Page 42
Fractal geometry Page 44
Chapter 3. A picture from the Alhambra Page 46
A form system of an alien culture
Chapter 4. Kamal Ali's pattern Page 58
A form system for one thousand and one pictures
Chapter 5. The harmony of forms Page 74
An (almost forgotten) form system by Wilhelm Ostwald
Chapter 6. Opus 91 by Hans Hinterreiter Page 90
Organs of colors, forms and networks and their interplay
Chapter 7. Color Signs Page 108
Kandinsky and the consequences
Chapter 8. The forms of colors Page 124
To the point
Chapter 9. Correspondences Page 162
On the concord and discord of sounds, colors and forms

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Translation of: Die Formen der Farben.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England
Copyright Date
1986
Translation Of
Die Formen der Farben
Translated From
German

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701/.8
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ND1489 .G4713 1986

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179 p. :
Number of pages
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13665649
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