Color Standards and Color Nomenclature Robert Ridgway (1850-1925) Washington, D. C.: The author, 1912 QC495 R5 Robert Ridgway, ornithologist and full-time curator of birds at the United States National Museum, was renowned for the accuracy with which he painted birds and was unmatched in his eye for the coloration....
“The tongue lies on the table, writing, writhing, spelling out the breath of its efforts in an unseemly desire to be seen.” — Johanna Drucker The Word Made Flesh Johanna Drucker New York: Bow and Arrow Press, 1989 PS3554 R75 W6 1989 Arch Kitty Maryatt Claremont, CA: Scripps College Press, 2010 N7433.35 U6...
Maple Leaf Rag Ellen Banks (1938-2017) Atlanta, GA: E. Banks, 1988 N7433.4 B36 M3 1988 oversize Black artist Ellen Banks is known for her geometric abstract painting entirely inspired by musical notation. Her “Maple Leaf Rag” indicates how the concept works. She translates the notes on the staff to...
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there Which seek thro' the world, is ne'er met elsewhere Home! Home! Sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home There's no place like home! An...
“A colour shines in its surroundings. (Just as eyes only smile in a face)” - Ludwig Wittgenstein Remarks on Colour Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951) Pasadena, CA: Archetype Press, Art Center College of Design, 2000 xBF 789 C7 W513 2000 During the last few years of his life, Ludwig Wittgenstein...
Although I have no beauty, colour & perfume Am I not after all the grass of His garden?” — Saadi COLOURS OF PERSIA: PERCEPTIONS, ACCOUNTS… Susan Allix (b. 1943) London, 2007 N7433.4 A57 C65 2007 From the artist: “The text is arranged around the headings of five cities – Tehran, Mashad, Yazd,...
“God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.” OPTICKS OR, A TREATISE OF THE...
“The simplest color relationship…still requires understanding of the color characteristics…that is, hue, value, intensity and temperature, etc.” –James Trissel COLOR FOR THE LETTERPRESS James Trissel Colorado Springs: The Press at Colorado College, 1987 NE1850 T75 1987 Twenty unnumbered, unbound folded leaves issued in plastic and wooden cases. Edition of seventy-five copies,...
“The sense of comfort is the outcome of balance, while marked unbalance immediately urges a corrective. That this approximate balance is desirable may be shown by reference to our behavior, as to temperatures, quality of smoothness and roughness, degrees of light and dark, proportion of...