The temperamental rose : and other ways of seeing colour / Barbara Hodgson & Claudia Cohen.

"A collaboration between author and book designer Barbara Hodgson, and bookbinder Claudia Cohen. The Temperamental Rose & Other Ways of Seeing Colour was borne during the collaborators' first meeting, in the summer of 2006, when they discovered mutual passions for color wheels and other systems for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hodgson, Barbara, 1955- (Author)
Cohen, Claudia, 1953- (Author)
Corporate Authors: Black Stone Press (Vancouver, B.C.) (Printer)
Heavenly Monkey (Firm) (Publisher)
Other Authors: Clifford, David, 1936- (Printer)
Language:English
Published: [Vancouver, British Columbia] : Heavenly Monkey Editions, 2007.
Subjects:
Color.
Color > History.
Artists' books > British Columbia > Vancouver > 2007.
Artists' books.
Genre:
Artists' books
Artists' books.
Local Note:
MSU: Purchased in part with funds provided by the Stanley C. Hollander and Selma D. Hollander Endowment for Special Collections.
MSU: Out of sequence printer's copy. Signed by Barbara Hodgson, but not Claudia Cohen.
Binding Information:
Simplified binding with red leather spine, diaper-patterned black boards with geometric leather onlays in various colors, and fore-edges done in millimeter style with orange and blue leather; edges of the leaves are untrimmed.
Physical Description:39 pages, 1 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Color charts and wheels included are: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), The colours of Purgatory
  • Mediæval uroscopy charts, The colours of urine and their meanings
  • Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810), The colour sphere
  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832), Colour spiral
  • George Field (1777-1854), Definitive or fundamental scale of colour
  • Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), Nomenclature of The Human Comedy
  • Oliver Byrne (active 1830s to 1870s), A Euclidean colour wheel
  • Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889), Simple and contrast colours
  • Alphonse Bertillon (1854-1914), Notation of the color of the eyes
  • Alfred G. Mayer (1868-1922), Color mimicry
  • A silk merchant's colour thread card
  • Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), Vowels, 1871
  • Robert Ridgway (1850-1929), Orange-green-violet
  • Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932), Chromatic and achromatic standards
  • The colour of currency
  • After Charles Blane, Grammaire des arts du dessin 1870.