Autori: Arielle Eckstut, Joann Eckstut
Titolo: What Is Color?: 50 Questions and Answers on the Science of Color
Editore: Abrams
Anno: 2020

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Answering fifty essential questions, What is Color? offers a comprehensive and digestible overview of the science of color. It takes the reader on an amazing visual journey, from the physics of light and the quirky biology of the brain that perceives it, to the working of color vision, to the many ways that the color theorists have subdued the chaos of color into color wheels and other useful systems for artists and industry. What is Color? will help anyone in the arts, design, or sciences work more effectively and creatively with color.

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"Scientists and non-scientists alike will appreciate the elegance and accessibility of this important book."
Andrew Huberman, Professor of Neurobiology & Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine

“Engaging and clear, What is Color? presents the complex issues of subjective color perception with rare common sense.”
Sean Adams, Chair, Undergraduate and Graduate Graphic Design, ArtCenter, Pasadena

A comprehensive illustrated exploration of the fascinating science of color.

Arielle and Joann Eckstut, authors of The Secret Language of Color, offer a thorough, readable, and highly visual exploration of the science of color.

Organized by 50 of the most essential questions about color across a variety of fields—physics, chemistry, biology, technology, and psychology—this book examines how and why we see color; how color relates to light; what the real primary colors are; how biology, language, and culture affect the colors that we see; and much more. Full of clear and elegant infographics, What Is Color? is a must-have for artists and designers, scientists, students, and decorators, and anyone else whose work or play involves color.