Books About Color
I find these references almost as fascinating as colors themselves. Buy via these links and SmartMonsters receives a small spiff.
- Art and Visual Perception, Rudolf Arnheim
- The Art of Color, Johannes Itten
- Blue: the History of a Color, Michel Pastoureau
- Bright Earth, Philip Ball
- Color, Zelanski / Fisher
- Color and Culture, John Gage
- Color and Human Response, Faber Birren
- Color and Meaning, John Gage
- Color Psychology and Color Therapy, Faber Birren
- Color: A Natural History of the Palette, Victoria Finlay
- Color, the Secret Influence, Fehrman and Fehrman
- Indigo, Balfour-Paul (ed.)
- Interaction of Color, Josef Albers
- Madder Red, Robert Chenciner
- Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color that Changed the World, Simon Garfield
- The Symbolism of Color, Faber Birren