John Gage is Reader in the History of Western Art at Cambridge University. An authority on color and on Turner, he is also the author of Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism (California, 1999).
"This is a splendid and courageous book, remarkable not only for the extent of the author's knowledge and the subtlety of his account, but for tackling a subject which cuts clean through the boundaries of those 'fields' which tend to be so assiduously patrolled by scholarly claimants."--Jane Jakeman, "Oxford Magazine
"This is a splendid and courageous book, remarkable not only for the extent of the author's knowledge and the subtlety of his account, but for tackling a subject which cuts clean through the boundaries of those 'fields' which tend to be so assiduously patrolled by scholarly claimants."--Jane Jakeman, "Oxford Magazine
This book contains everything you wanted to know about color as a cultural construct, physical and optical property, and theoretical problem. Gage (art, Cambridge Univ.; J.M.W. Turner , LJ 7/87) has ranged very widely and come up with an extremely inclusive book dealing with nearly every Western, historical, and perceptual aspect of color. Trained at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Gage has an artist's direct sense of color and communicates it well in his writing, even when the illustration is in black and white. He has written a fascinating survey of this universal--but very subjective--aspect of art; no other title compares in depth and scope to this work. Recommended for general collections as well as for specialists, who will find much of interest in Gage's bibliographical excavations and careful looking.-- Jack Perry Brown, Art Inst. of Chicago Lib.
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