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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Itten, Johannes, 1888-1967. Elements of color. New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. [1970] (DLC) 77124314 (OCoLC)109509 |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Johannes Itten; Faber Birren |
OCLC Number: | 899943738 |
Notes: | "A simplification and condensation of ... The art of color, published in Germany in 1961 [under title: Kunst der Farbe]." |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2015. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (96 pages) illustrations (some color), portrait |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | Color physics -- Color agent and color effect -- Concord of colors -- Subjective timbre -- Theory of color design -- The twelve-part color circle -- The seven color contrasts -- Hue -- Light-dark -- Cold-warm -- Complementary -- Simultaneous -- Saturation -- Extension -- Color mixing -- The color sphere -- Color harmony -- Form and color -- Spatial effect of colors -- Theory of color impression -- Theory of color expression -- Composition -- Postscript. |
Series Title: | A Basic color library.; Basic color library. |
Responsibility: | Edited, and with a foreword and evaluation, by Faber Birren. Translated by Ernst van Hagen. |
More information: |
Abstract:
Includes color circles, spheres, and scales as well as suggested exercises.
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