Choosing Colours - the book

Bibliography

History of colour, pigments and colour in decoration

• Philip Ball, Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour, Viking, 2001.
  
• Jenny Balfour-Paul, Indigo, British Museum Press, London, 1998.
  
• Patrick Baty, 'Palette of Historic Paints', Country Life Magazine, 20 February 1992, UK.
  
• Patrick Baty, 'Palette of the Past', Country Life Magazine, 3 September 1992, UK.
  
• Paul Binski, Medieval Craftsmen: Painters, British Museum Press, 1991.
  
• Viola and Rosamund Borradaile, Practical Tempera Painting: A Student's Cennini, Dolphin, Brighton, 1949.
  
• Helmuth Bossert, An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration, Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin, 1928.
  
• Ian C. Bristow, Architectural Colour in British Interiors, 1615-1840, Yale University Press, London, 1996.
  
• Ian C. Bristow, Interior House-Painting Colours and Technology, 1615-1840, Yale University Press, London, 1996.
  
• Ian C. Bristow, 'Ready-Mixed Paint in the Eighteenth Century', Architectural Review, No. 963, April 1977.
  
• Ian C. Bristow, 'Repainting Eighteenth-century Interiors', ASCHB transactions 1981 (vol. vi, 1982).
  
• M. Brusatin, A History of Colours, Shambala, Boston, USA, 1991.
  
• E.R. Caley, 'Ancient Greek Pigments', Journal of Chemical Education, 23 (1946).
  
• Robert Chenciner, Madder Red, Curzon Press, 2000.
  
• François Delamare and Bernard Guineau, Colour, Making and Using Dyes and Pigments, trans. from the French edition, Thames and Hudson, 2000.
  
• Alan Dronsfield and John Edmonds, The Transition from Natural to Synthetic Dyeing, Edmonds, 2001.
  
• John Edmonds, The History of Woad and the Medieval Woad Vat, Edmonds, 1998.
  
• John Edmonds, The History and Practice of Eighteenth-century Dyeing, Edmonds, 1999.
  
• John Edmonds, Tyrian or Imperial Purple Dye, Edmonds, 2000.
  
• English Heritage, Layers of Understanding, Proceedings of Architectural Paint Seminar, Donhead, 2002.
  
• R.L. Feller (ed.), Artists' Pigments, Vol. 1, National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA/OUP, Oxford, 1986.
  
• M. Farnsworth, 'Ancient Pigments', Journal of Chemical Education, 28 (1951).
  
• Simon Garfield, Mauve, Faber & Faber, London, 2000.
  
• Oliver Garnett, Colour: A Social History, The National Trust, 2000.
  
• R.J. Gettens & G.L. Stout, Painting Materials: A Short Encyclopaedia, reprint of 1942 edition, New York, 1966.
  
• F. Hamilton Jackson, Mural Painting, Sands & Co., London, 1904.
  
• R.A. Higgins, 'The Polychrome Decoration of Greek Terracottas', Studies in Conservation, 15 (1970).
  
• Historic Paints Ltd, A Treatise and General Primer on the Properties of Early American Paints, Historic Paints Ltd, USA, 1994.
  
• Arthur Seymour Jennings, Paint and Colour Mixing, 7th ed., Trade Papers Publishing, London, 1926.
  
• Catherine Lynn, 'Colors and other Materials of Historic Wallpapers', Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, Vol. 20, No. 2.
  
• Maclehose and Brown, Vasari on Technique, Dent 1907, Dover 1960.
  
• Ralph Mayer, The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques, 4th ed., Faber & Faber, London, 1981.
  
• Thos. Parsons and Sons Ltd, Historical Colours, reprint, Thos Parsons and Sons Ltd, London, 1937.
  
• Michel Pastoureau, Bleu, Histoire d'une Couleur, Editions du Seuil, 2000.
  
• Traditional Paint News, Journal of the Traditional Paint Forum, 1994.
  
• A. Roy (ed.), Artists' Pigments, Vol. 2, National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA/OUP, Oxford, 1992.
  
• Frank S. Walsh, 'The Early American Palette: Colonial Paint Colours Revealed', Paint in
• America: The Colors of Historic Buildings, (R.W. Moss ed.), John Wiley & Sons Inc, USA, 1994.
  
• E. West Fitzhugh (ed.), Artists' Pigments, Vol. 3, National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA/OUP, Oxford, 1997.
  
• Georgian Group Guide No. 4, Paint Colour, 2nd ed., UK, 1991.

Classical and early texts on colour and pigment

• Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting, trans. C. Grayson, Penguin, London, 1972 and 1991.
  
• Aristotle, On the Soul, book II, vi-viii, book III, i-iii, v, trans. W.S. Hett, Harvard University Press, 2000.
  
• Aristotle, 'On Colours' in Minor Works, trans. W.S. Hett, Harvard University Press, 2000.
  
• Aristotle, Parva Naturalia, On Sense and Sensible Objects, trans. W.S. Hett, Harvard University Press, 2000.
  
• Cennino Cennini, Il Libro dell'Arte, ed. F. Brunello, 1971.
  
• Plato, Timaeus, 36: Colours, trans. D. Lee, Penguin Classics, 1977.
  
• Pliny the Elder, Natural History, (book II 151-3, book IX 125-127, book XXXIII 111, books XXXIV-XXXVII, trans. J.F. Healy, Penguin Classics, London, 1991.
  
• Theophilus, On Divers Arts, (1122), trans. Hawthorne and Smith, Dover, New York, 1979.
  
• Translations of the major medieval works such as the manuscripts of Jehan Le Begue and Alcherius can be found in the republished 1849 work by Mary P. Merrifield, Medieval and Renaissance Treatises on the Art of Painting, Dover, 1967. (Two volumes bound as one).

Colour theory, mapping and systems

• Roy S. Berns, Billmeyer and Saltzman's Principles of Colour Technology, 3rd ed., John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2000.
  
• Färgrapport F28, Colour Order Systems and Environmental Colour Designs, ed. Anders
• Hård and Lars Sivik, Scandinavian Colour Institute, 1983.
  
• Färgrapport F22, On Studying Colour Combinations, ed. Anders Hård and Lars Sivik, Scandinavian Colour Institute, 1989.
  
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theory of Colours, trans. Eastlake 1840, reprinted M.I.T., 1970.
  
• Wilhelm Ostwald, The Color Primer, ed. Faber Birren, English edition, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1969.
  
• Charles A. Riley, Colour Codes, University Press of New England, Hanover, USA, 1995.
  
• Paul Zelanski and Mary Pat Fisher, Colour, 3rd ed., Herbert Press, 1999.

Colour vision and perception

• Edith Anderson Feisner, Colour, Laurence King, 2000.
  
• Dennis Baylor, 'Colour Mechanisms of the Eye', Colour Art and Science, ed. Lamb and Bourriau, Cambridge, 1995.
  
• John Berger, Ways of Seeing, Penguin, London, 1972.
  
• B. Berlin and P. Kay, Basic Color Terms, University of California Press, 1969.
  
• The Colour Group, Newsletter, Colour Group (Great Britain, www.colour.org.uk)
  
• John Mollon, 'Seeing Colour', Colour Art and Science, ed. Lamb and Bourriau, Cambridge, 1995.
  
• Malcolm Longair, 'Light and Colour', Colour Art and Science, ed. Lamb and Bourriau, Cambridge, 1995.
  
• H. Varley (ed.), Colour, Marshall, London, 1980.
  
• M.D. Vernon, The Psychology of Perception, Penguin 1962.
  
• Michael Wilcox, Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green, Artways, Australia, 1998.
  
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, Remarks on Colour, ed. G.E.M. Anscombe, Blackwell, 1977.
  
• H. Zollinger, Colour, A Multidisciplinary Approach, VCH, Zurich, 1999.

Colour and art

• D. Bomford and A. Roy, Colour, National Gallery Co. Ltd., London, 2000.
  
• N. Charlet, Yves Klein, Vilo, Paris, 2000.
  
• Johannes Itten, The Art of Colour, John Wiley and Sons Inc., 1961 and 1973.
  
• Johannes Itten, The Elements of Colour, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1970.
  
• John Gage, Colour and Culture, Thames and Hudson, 1993.
  
• John Gage, Colour and Meaning, Thames and Hudson, 1999.
  
• Paul Hills, Venetian Colour, Yale, 1999.
  
• Trevor Lamb and Janine Bourriau (ed.), Colour Art and Science, Cambridge, 1995.

Colour and place

• Michael Lancaster, Colourscape, Academy, 1996.
  
• Michael Lancaster, Britain in View, Quiller, 1984.
  
• Jean-Philippe Lenclos, Les couleurs de l'europe, Moniteur, 1995.
  
• Hibi Sadao, The Colours of Japan, with an introductory essay by Kunio Fukuda, trans. John Bester, Kodansha, Tokyo, 2000.
  
• Hibi Sadao, Japanese Detail, with an introductory essay by Kunio Fukuda, Thames and Hudson, London, 1989.
  
• Raghubir Singh, River of Colour: the India of Raghubir Singh, Phaidon, London, 1998.
  
• Ed Taverne and Cor Wagenaar (ed.), The Colour of the City, V+K Publishing, 1992.
  
• Bonnie Young and Donna Karan, Colours of the Vanishing Tribes, Booth Clibborn, London, 1998.

Contemporary culture and colour

• David Batchelor, Chromophobia, Reaktion, 2000.
  
• Norman Foster, 30 Colours, V+K Publishing, Blaricum, 1998.
  
• Derek Jarman, Chroma, Vintage, London, 1995.
  
• Rem Koolhaas/OMA, Norman Foster, Alessandro Mendini, Colours, V+K Publishing/Birkhauser, 2001.
  
• NCS, Top 300 Colours in Design, Architecture and Manufacturing, 2002-2003, Scandinavian Colour Institute, 2002.
  
• Maggie Toy (ed.), Colour in Architecture, Architectural Design publication, 1996.

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