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Routledge - The Most Beautiful Blue: Painting and Science Book

Name: Routledge - The Most Beautiful Blue: Painting and Science Book
Brand: Routledge
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Explore the connection between art and science in The Most Beautiful Blue. This book examines how historical figures like Buffon, Goethe, and Philipp Otto Runge observed and described the vivid colors found in shadows during dawn, dusk, or candlelight. Paul Smith investigates why these fleeting visual effects hold such aesthetic and epistemological value. This work offers a multidisciplinary approach to understanding color perception. By combining art history through close pictorial analysis with insights from psychology and neuroscience, the text provides a deep look at how we perceive the world. It is an essential resource for those interested in the history of science and the arts since 1750, offering a unique perspective on how light and shadow influence human appreciation of color.

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Multidisciplinary research that combines art history, psychology, and neuroscience to explain color perception.

Detailed analysis of how historical figures like Goethe and Buffon interpreted colored shadows.

Explores the aesthetic significance of ephemeral light effects seen at dawn, dusk, and under candlelight.

Uses close pictorial analysis to connect scientific observation with artistic representation.

Part of the Science and the Arts since 1750 series by Routledge.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1138488097
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Graphic Arts > Techniques > Use of Colour
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 March 2021
Listed Since: 22 September 2020

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