Color Codes
Modern Theories of Color in Philosophy, Painting and Architecture, Literature, Music, and Psychology
Charles A. Riley II


University Press of New England
1995 • 373 pp. 8 color illus. 6 x 9"
Art / Philosophy & Ethics / Architecture / Literary Criticism

$29.95 Paper, 0-87451-742-7



Paper, 978-0-87451-742-2


"The subtitle clearly delineates the subject matter of this important book on the subjectivity of color sense and theories thereof, from the late 19th century to the present . . . [Riley] stresses the relatively independent development of color ideas among the theorists chosen, speaking of interrelations usually only where they have some historical or conceptual validity; and he does so in a clear, intelligible style." —Choice

A multidisciplinary look at the role of color in contemporary aesthetics.

"The first thing to realize about the study of color in our time is its uncanny ability to evade all attempts to systematically codify it," writes Charles A. Riley in this series of interconnected essays on the uses and meanings of color.

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CHARLES A. RILEY II is a frequent lecturer on the arts. He is author of several books, including Aristocracy and the Modern Imagination (2001) and Saints of Modern Art (1998), and of over a hundred gallery and museum catalogue essays for exhibitions on three continents. He has also written dozens of cover features for magazines including Art & Auction, Art & Antiques, and World Art. Founding editor-in-chief of WE, a national magazine for people with disabilities, he is Associate Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY.








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