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Create dazzling color schemes for any indoor space. You'll quickly sharpen your color skills--and open the door to a more rewarding and profitable career with John F. Pile's Color in Interior Design. He takes the mystery out of working with color, showing you step-by-step how to plan color relationships in an organized and systematic way...prepare color schemes for interiors...make color charts...select materials...put together color samples...work with additive and subtractive color...understand the psychological impact of color...use color in functional spaces...and solve a wide range of practical color problems. This hands-on color design tool packs illustrations of the best color work by well-known professionals--plus a survery of color in historic interiors that will guide you through restoration and adaptive reuse projects.
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color in interior design.......2007-09-21
As a lay person just interested in learning more about the use of color in interior design, this was an excellent book. While the first several chapters were very "text bookish", the remainder was very layman friendly. I feel more confident in undertaking color projects in my home and in conversing about the use of color with friends, who are now asking my opinions. The chapters that helped me the most were on the color wheel and color relationships. I enjoyed it and will now pursue my interest in color and design.
Color in Interior Design.......2007-09-03
There are zillions of books on this complex world of color.
This one is the best for all Interior Designers, students and teachers, it is written by John F. Pile, an authority in Interior Design. You will enjoy learning the Color Systems for your business, and covers the historical aspect of of the Bauhaus School of Design, and also color in Historic Interiors, including artists and personal experiences.
Michele Beatriz
color.......2006-11-11
it's a really helpful book for designers.you can find whatever you need about colors...
Color theroy.......2006-08-15
I am studing interior design and this book was recommended to me. I think it is an excellent book.
ANything by John Pile...........2006-03-22
This is a great color reference for interior designers, or aspiring designers. It is a great visual reference, offers very good detail and I use it often for reference when putting together story boards and offering ideas to clients.
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The most complete and lucid nonmathematical study of light available. Chapters are self-contained, making the book flexible and easy to read. Coverage includes such non-traditional topics as processes of vision and the eye, atmospherical optical phenomena, color perception and illusions, color in nature and in art, Kirilian photography, and holography. Includes experiments that can be carried out with simple equipment. Chapters contain optional advanced sections, and appendixes review the mathematics for quantitative aspects. Illustrated, including a four-color insert.
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Very good.......2005-09-09
The book arrived quickly and in the condition that was specified. No issues, would use this seller again.
Optometry was never ever so interesting.......2005-08-31
Particularly for a budding Optometrist, this book allows the Optometrist to be acquainted with all the fine arts of optics and the like.
Seeing the Light.......2002-10-29
Book arrived in great shape. Like new!!
most missed book.......2002-08-21
This is the best textbook I ever had, and I sold it for some ($$$) at the end of a semester to buy a bus ticket. Very mad; I miss the book, but it's so expensive. It's amazing the way the author incorporates all sorts of literary allusions in this physics book, such as offering an interesting hypothesis on the optical illusion of the egyptians getting swallowed by the red sea while chasing the jews. Every chapter, light becomes a metaphor for so many things, the way we see, the obstacles, etc.
Physics of light for everyone else.......2000-06-15
I first discovered this book when I asked a physics professor down the hall for an explanation of diffraction and refraction in relation to some daytime sky phenomenon. He handed me Seeing the Light, and before long I coveted the volume. The authors dress down optical physics into explanations that anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of physics can understand, relating optical phenomenon to everyday events and objects. The diagrams and photos help clarify the explanation. And practical, hands-on suggested activities help drive the point home. This book would be great for physics teachers -- or teachers at any level. How about pinhole cameras or illusion drawings for class projects?
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From the sight-lines of the university setting, Shelby Steele gives an account of race that is nothing if not controversial. Steele's nine essays derive their messages from personal experience dosed with broader social psychology. The value of this book, which won a 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award, lies in its introspection, rather than its distant calculation. Steele weeds the individual out of the group and argues for personal responsibility. He offers a unique look at the African-American experience and points a questioning finger at the children of affirmative action. The knee-jerk identification he observes "presupposes a deep racist reflex in American life that will forever try to limit black possibility."
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In this controversial essay collection, award-winning writer Shelby Stelle illuminates the origins of the current conflict in race relations--the increase in anger, mistrust, and even violence between black and whites. With candor and persuasive argument, he shows us how both black and white Americans have become trapped into seeing color before character, and how social policies designed to lessen racial inequities have instead increased them. The Content of Our Character is neither "liberal" nor "conservative," but an honest, courageous look at America's most enduring and wrenching social dilemma.
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Emerging and intelligent race relations.......2006-06-26
Finally, we are making intelligent decisions about race relations and civil rights and moving away from the problems created by white guilt and "black power" agendas during the early civil rights movement. The author is very intelligent and makes valid observations and written commentary on where we have been and on a pathway to a society that makes more sense than ever before. Jim Moore
The Truth unmasked.......2006-02-28
In a nutshell, this is one of many books written on this subject matter. It is a very good book, Mr Steele ocaisionally glosses over a bit of the subject matter. There is a need for much more of self examination, and this will allow us to define ourselves as Americans far better than those that have decided to race bait and perform the victim routine that seems to be so popular amongst many people of color. A couple of very wealthy black men have created a growth industry from it. We need the self examination that this book touches on, not the self hatred that some vocal minority within this minority are preaching.
Great Psychological and Spiritual Insight.......2004-08-10
Shelby Steele's "The Content of Our Character" is not just a book for African-Americans. It's for anyone who wants to live a better life. When I read this book I felt like he was speaking to me, individually, as a man and not as a member of a racial category. Especially valuable are his insights on self-sabotage, and the true sources of self-esteem. All of us have our own demons to face and Steele's wise counsel is invaluable in that struggle. You should approach this book in the spirit of Epictetus, or Benjamin Franklin. It really is in that same class.
Strong Opinion.......2002-11-18
In the book, The Content of Our Character,Shelby Steele expresse very strong views about racism in the black community. He, at times, has valid responses to some of the problems that America faces with racism, but some of his opinions(keyword opinion)comes of very strong and seems unsympathetic to some of the struggles that African-Americans have faced in the past as well as the present.
While I hope he may be sensitive to the hardships hardships that have fallen upon the black race, I think his basic point of the book is that although blacks have been victims of racism for decades, there is no sense in "milking the cow" for more reasons to fall as victims to racism. There are situations that African-Americans can change in their own lives to keep from being pulled into negative stereotypes. For example,in one of his arguments he states that there are blacks who complain of living in poverty and that its the "white man's" fault. He says there are things that you can do to change that situation such as going for a higher education and actually apllying yourself to achieve that goal. As with anything in life there will be sacrifices made and that something you have to do. Meaning you can place the blame on anyone or anything why your life is the
way it is but what are you going to do to change it? No one can hold anyone back from achieving anything. He defends most of his arguements this way-- by offering "suggestions" on how not to fall to being a victim of racism, at least in your own eyes because you are doing all that you can do to try your best to improve your life(if improvement is needed). He's stating racism is not the sole problem fore African-Americans, some just use racism as a crutch to make an excuse about why their not getting ahead in life.
But at a different point of view, it seems for a second he for a second he forgot he is a black man. He stated that he felt nostalgia when in black neighborhoods( but as I stated offers suggestions on how not to fall as a victim to racism and stereotypes) and he stated that while at a party he felt ok for a moment by making whites who were at the party feel guilty about struggles(even though he stated that those African-Americans who use racism as a crutch and shouldn't) and he's married to a white woman. How did she feel knowing he at one time was ok with that? His opinions are very strong and can be taking the wrong way. I feel as if he is very opiniated and at times unsympathetic to the hardships. I would recommend this book to read, just keep your own opinions at heart and remember there just opinions.
The Road Less Travelled.......2002-11-11
This tome by Shelby Steele was written slightly over a decade ago. However, the problems of race and class that defined much of the black experience in America at the time of its writing still hold for today. And, while I agree with Steele's general assessment of the state of black America, and especially with the solutions he outlines, I do agree somewhat with his critics, black or otherwise, who believes Steele tends to underplay the current levels of racism in our society.
However, here's the rub: Racism can be an excuse to fail, or a reason to improve one's lot to the extent that blacks are empowered to make racism less relevant to their individual and collective destiny. For what Steele is proposing is a return to the proud ethic first elaborated upon by such civil rights pioneers as Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey.
I give this excellent book four stars instead of five for the following reasons: 1). As it was compiled mainly from magazine articles previously written by Steele, it is a bit repetetive, and; 2). Steele draws quite a bit on history of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, but I believe that by tracing many of our societal trends to the turn-of-the-century competing visions of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, this would have been a more well-rounded book.
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One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned fifty years and touched thousands of lives.
A gifted grassroots organizer, Baker shunned the spotlight in favor of vital behind-the-scenes work that helped power the black freedom struggle. She was a national officer and key figure in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, one of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and a prime mover in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Baker made a place for herself in predominantly male political circles that included W. E. B. DuBois, Thurgood Marshall, and Martin Luther King Jr., all the while maintaining relationships with a vibrant group of women, students, and activists both black and white.
In this deeply researched biography, Barbara Ransby chronicles Baker's long and rich political career as an organizer, an intellectual, and a teacher, from her early experiences in depression-era Harlem to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Ransby shows Baker to be a complex figure whose radical, democratic worldview, commitment to empowering the black poor, and emphasis on group-centered, grassroots leadership set her apart from most of her political contemporaries. Beyond documenting an extraordinary life, the book paints a vivid picture of the African American fight for justice and its intersections with other progressive struggles worldwide across the twentieth century.
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More pieces of the puzszle.......2006-06-07
This was a great book. Ella Baker was ahead of het time.This is a great read if you like the history of the civil right movement.Ms. Baker I hope to meet you in heaven.
Phenomenal book about a phenomenal woman.......2005-12-09
Dr. Ransby provides a well-structured and insightful biography of one of the most important, yet least well-known, leaders of the civil rights movement in the United States. This book is strongly recommended for any student of modern U.S. history.
a decisive American life--and a first rate biography.......2003-05-29
Ella Baker must be the most underrated figure in U.S. history. There are plenty of Presidents who have done less to shape their own times than Ella Baker. She decisively shaped two of the most important national civil rights organizations--the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference--and was the single most decisive figure in a third--the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Only Martin Luther King Jr. can be considered a rival in importance to the African American freedom movement, and yet most Americans have never even heard of Ella Baker. This exhaustively researched and well written biography should go a long way toward filling that gap.
This is a thoughful, analytical, and well-told story about a uniquely important American political life. It is a work of central importance in United States history and especially the history of the African American freedom movement. It is a cutting edge work of black women's history, too. I plan to buy a stack of them for Christmas presents, and to assign this book to my students for many years to come.
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Lame Deer
Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he was many things in the white man's world -- rodeo clown, painter, prisioner. But, above all, he was a holy man of the Lakota tribe.
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The story he tells is one of harsh youth and reckless manhood, shotgun marriage and divorce, history and folklore as rich today as ever -- and of his fierce struggle to keep pride alive, though living as a stranger in his own ancestral land.
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Four reads, still excellent.......2007-09-10
I first read this book 20 years ago and have re-read it three more times. What better recommendation can I give?
visions, sought and found.......2007-05-03
The life and times of this Lakota holy man, contrarian (heyoka), and sometime outlaw are rendered for us through the collaboration of John (Fire) Lame Deer, and Richard Erdoes, an Austrian artist by way of New York. Lame Deer's reckless early days; his quest for vision and spirit; and the integrity of his personality throughout a very full life - this is the meat and potatoes of this book.
The autobiographical first part of the book fades into the ways of Lakota culture and rituals and all the concomitant symbolisms which inhabit them.
Lame Deer is opening up the inner world of the Lakota people, not just for the future generations of his own people, but for all of us interested in the Lakota ways.
What struck me most in this narration is Lame Deer's humor and Indian perspectives on the idiocies of the white people; without hatred or resentment - just an enormous sadness that has pervaded a very unique life. This book will open your eyes to the visions this seeker sought and found. Highly recommended.
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Seeker of Visions.......2006-11-10
Truly wonderful book written in the words of John Lame Deer. Excellent preamble to Gift of Power written in the words of Archie Lame Deer. Father and son really have a lot in common.
Be Careful.......2006-02-26
This oft insightful, oft hilarious, oft irreverant book is a great read. I read it first over Christmas, and now I'm reading it with many of my Navajo students. They love it for his erudition and frankness.
Especially comical is his chapter "Getting Drunk, Going to Jail." For many of the students, they were taken aback at the Holy Man's indiscretions, but Lame Deer makes clear that an Indian holy man is no Christian - if Wakan Tanka is both good and bad, then so too should man, including holy men. There is no symptom of "bad conscience" here, thank God.
One caveat: a friend of mine read this 20 years ago, recommended it to me; but he credits his decision to go and live amongst the Indians to this book. Well, the short version is Lame Deer is a man apart: don't expect Lame Deer in every Indian you meet. The poisons of alcohol and Industrialism are still doing kicking the crap out of the Indians out here. It ain't pretty.
But Lame Deer is, so read this book.
hysterical and insightful.......2006-02-21
lame deer's take on the white man's world is so truthful, poignant, and hilarious, make sure you are at liberty to laugh out loud when you pick it up. every few pages will have you smiling, chuckling, if not uproariously laughing while you put the book down, only to pause and then re-read the section for the pure delight of his frank and funny portrayl of a life as a holy man that ranges from wild and wreckless, somber and lonely, to mild and mature. but it's always funny and insightful! i highly recommend!!
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What is it that makes the work of Monet, van Gogh, da Vinci, and Warhol so visually arresting? How do our eyes and brains coordinate to perceive line and color?
Neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone addresses these and many other questions in Vision and Art, a lively look at the science underlying art. She writes accessibly, but with plenty of technical depth, on such matters as the nature of light and the visible spectrum, the organization of visual-image processing, the structure of the vertebrate eye and brain, and individual and culturally conditioned perceptions of color. Using well-known works of art as case studies, she offers fascinating bits of trivia (on, for instance, how pastels are made and why purple dyes are so rare) alongside practical information for artists (for example, how high-contrast contours and evenly distributed luminance attract the eye).
The result is a literate, lucid blend of art and science that will appeal to artists and connoisseurs alike. --Gregory McNamee
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Vision and Photography.......2005-10-17
This is a book that every teacher of photography and serious photographer should read and study and re-read. Although the book contains no photographic examples, there are plenty of examples in famous paintings to support the visual research Dr. Livingtson so clearly writes about. The examples in paintings are easily transferable
to a number of familiar and famous photographs.
Ever wonder what Ansel Adams and Edward Weston were so successful with the black-and-white photographs but not with their color photographs? I have, and her book has provided me with insights into this and other photographic practices.
Outstanding.......2005-03-16
After reading it, you'll want to keep it close to you. That way, you'll never forget how important art and science are in your life.
Shows you how you see and how you paint.......2004-01-17
Margaret Livingstone has produced a book so very useful to visual artists that it may, in its density of ideas, seem definitive rather than evocative. But evocative it is. As we learn from studying it, Livingstone's book offers implications that may be developed by any artist who reads it in almost any direction. One might take as an example the very rich Chapter 8, with its notions of luminance as a balance for the salience, or pushiness of certain colors - how Leonardo handled it, how Ingres handled it, and how today's painter or digital image maker might go even further. The size and shape of the book allow for illustrations that work on the eye at the right scale. And there is an overall visual loudness to the book that is jarring and satisfying.
The author gets to the structure of our visual systems, makes them very clear, and tells us things that are lasting and verifiable. Her spirit of personal experimentation shows in the book, and makes us think that looking inquisitively at the world will pay off.
Fascinating Science of Visual Art.......2003-06-09
Some teasers on the back cover:
"Why do Claude Monet's fields of flowers seem to wave in the breeze?"
"What is the secret of Mona Lisa's smile?"
The first two chapters cover some scientific fundamentals- how light and the human vision works. While this is all very scientific, every effort is made to make it understandable, with plenty of full-color diagrams illustrating the concepts. While these 2 chapters are not the easiest to read, they're not rocket science either, and provide a valuable foundation for the rest of the book. Not essential but VERY useful.
Things start to get interesting toward the end of the 2nd chapter, when we start to understand what a red/green colorblind person sees. But the best stuff starts to come in the third chapter ("Luminance and Night Vision"). Plenty of interesting illustrations are provided in this chapter (like red cherries in a blue bowl, where the cherries appear brighter or darker than the bowl depending on the ambient light, or flickering polkadots), and continues until the rest of a book, making it a truly fascinating read.
Oh, and the explanation on Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile is very convincing.
I definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in both visual art and science.
I also recommend it to anyone who's interested in science and how things work- you'll appreciate some art pieces a lot more after reading this book.
Worth a Look.......2003-01-30
This volume is very good at covering how the human visual system operates and how that affects the artist and art viewer. It's not too dense with abstruse scientific detail and it contains lots of good examples and demonstrations. The writing style and
organisation of the book are also clear.
On the whole, I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the visual arts, although the scope of the book is not large.
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8ountless children with Irlen Syndrome, or light and con?rast sensitivity, have been misunderstoood as lazy, slow, inatentive, dyslexic, ADHD, or just troubled, when, in fact, they suffer from an easily correctable problem. Theyre bright kids, but theyre having reading problems and difficulty in school because nobody has ever asked the right questions. By chance, a mother encountered a scientifically proven Eolution that has already helped thousands. Her personal story shows readers what they can do about this =ighly prevalent, commonly overlooked, but readily addressed condition.
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The Light Barrier.......2005-07-20
This is a thought-provoking book. The subject is a complicated phenominon that should be examined by peer review in similar, less anecdotal evidence. As a graduate engineer and a long-time photographer, I am aware of some of the properties of light itself as perceived by humans, and view this subject with considerable interest. One of my grandchildren has benefited substantially from Irlen prescribed glasses. Thus,I look forward to future examination of this phenominon.
Impressive and readable.......2004-03-05
This is a good, solid book on the topic of light-related reading problems. The author, who has problems with light sensitivity herself, has two children who encountered reading problems and other problems of visual perception that were remedied by using tinted lenses and colored sheets of plastic. She describes their lives before getting glasses and overlays, the puzzlement of opthalmologists and other specialists, and the vast improvement in their lives afterwards.
This book is more readable and goes further than its counterpart, Helen Irlen's _Reading by the Colors_. In particular, it describes people whose visual perception is distorted everywhere, not just on the printed page. This is a little-discussed aspect of the phenomenon that has come to be known as Irlen syndrome, since the original discovery of the use of color in helping people's visual perception was based on reading alone.
However, it still mostly concentrates on reading and contends that anyone with severe enough visual perception problems for everything to be distorted would have significant reading difficulties too. I am an autistic and hyperlexic person whose level of visual distortion in everyday life has been described as severe, but whose reading is relatively unaffected despite distortion of the printed page. I was puzzled when my Irlen screener described me as having more severe Irlen syndrome than he did, because it seemed to me that he had more severe reading problems than I had ever had. The book makes the same mistake, and also describes people like me as extremely rare. It makes me wonder if we are simply under-researched because we don't present with reading difficulties, and if time will show greater understanding of our particular kind of visual perception issues. This is the only significant hole I could see in the research the author had done.
A more minor problem I saw was that the book sought to excuse the high price and virtual monopoly by one company of the screening and tinting techniques. As a person on a very limited income, I only went to them and paid that much because I was desperate to be able to leave my house without being visually assaulted with distorted fragments of color. I wished that there were high-quality options available without paying all that money, and was disappointed to see that the book glossed over this by proclaiming it cheap in comparison to exorbitant prices I could never afford for other educational techniques or vision therapies.
The glossy section in the middle of the book goes beyond showing reading distortions, and shows distortions of the rest of the world as well. It also shows the same text with a number of different colored backgrounds, showing how this might affect a person's reading comprehension. There are sections for parents and for professionals, although none on what to do if you are an adult discovering that you have these problems. Many of the suggestions, though, can be used by anyone.
The author has done an extensive amount of research into the subject, understands that a lot is not known about why these things work, and provides lists of studies at the back that are pro, con, and neutral on the topic of color as used in helping people with reading difficulties. There is also a list of Internet resources at the back.
This is probably the best book on its topic to date, and I'd highly recommend it. I look forward to books that take some elements of this book, particularly its discussion of the non-reading-related aspects of Irlen syndrome (visual distortion and fragmentation) that apply to my life more than the reading-related ones do, and go further with them, though.
A Must Read!.......2002-10-24
This readable book is a "must read" for parents, teachers, and other professionals concened with the education and welfare of children. It also has implications for the workforce where employees suffer from light sensitivity in the form of headache and fatigue, lowered productivity, and absences from work.
This is a well researched, balanced presentation of an intervention that has proven itself with thousands around the world who suffer from light based sensitivity.
The Light Barrier.......2002-10-04
This carefully researched work unveils an invisible barrier that may affect 10 million American children in private and public schools who experience reading difficulties. Ms. Stone provides direction and ideas for both parents and professionals to help find a solution for those who may be labeled as underachievers.
The Light Barrier is a "must read" for every educator, pediatrician, and eye care professional who deals with students, of any age, who are struggling with classroom learning.
She has validated what I have been hearing repeatedly in my years of working with both the dyslexic and Irlen/scotopic population.
The Light Barrier.......2002-10-04
This book tells of the problems that children and adults are having and the difficult time they have finding a solution to the problem. The world want to put the everyone on drugs with all the side effects, without realizing there is a non-invasive way of dealing and eliminating the problem. Rhonda Stone does an incredible job writing about her own experiences with her kids and the ordeals they had to go through to finally find a solution.
I too have Irlen Syndrome and boy has the technology helped me.
Great job Rhonda.
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Simply the best.......2007-01-04
This is the best book on the subject I've found. I use it all of the time. Should be a required text for all painting classes.
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Doris Schattschneider's classic M. C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry (1990) is the most penetrating study of Escher's work in existence, and the one most admired by mathematicians and scientists. It deals with one powerful obsession that preoccupied Escher: what he called "the regular division of the plane," the puzzle-like interlocking of birds, fish, lizards, and other natural forms in continuous patterns. Schattschneider asks, "How did he do it?" She answers the question by meticulously analyzing Escher's notebooks, and the New Scientist described the result as "a collection of detective stories whose plots are brilliantly organized patterns."
Like the first edition of the book, this new volume includes many of Escher's masterworks, as well as hundreds of lesser-known examples of his work. It also features an illustrated epilogue by the author that reveals new information about Escher's inspiration and shows how his ideas of symmetry have influenced mathematicians, computer scientists, and contemporary artists. Visions of Symmetry is a trip into the mind of a creator who continues to captivate the world.
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Not for the casual Escher fan........2006-02-04
Make no mistake. This isn't a comprehensive book for the Escher fan who wants to look at all his pretty pictures. It is a highly academic (no problem there, unless you're looking for, like I said, pretty pictures) book that focuses on basic patterns. It doesn't have many of the drawings that introduced me to his work in the first place. It's not the coffee-table book I was looking for, but that's my problem. It does have volumes of text for the so-inclined.
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It is most gratifying to note that at large, it is a professor of Mathematics who was inspired to collect the materials and compile this most penetrating study on the works of M. C. Escher. That professor is Dr. Doris Schattschneider and her latest publication "M. C. Escher : Visions of Symmetry" is a life's labour of love at collecting, classifying and indexing the works of M. C. Escher in a single volume. The book opens with a stunning photograph of M. C. Escher and a penetrating one-page foreword by Douglas R. Hofstadter.
Who then is M. C. Escher and what is his global appeal? Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) was a Dutch graphic and wood-cut artist, who for decades working in isolation, single handedly produced the most haunting, fascinating and intriguing works of tesselation, the kind, the world had not seen before. His obsession with visual patterns built by the intricate interlocking of shapes that repeat and repeat forever, filling every crack in the regular plane, made it almost into a visual poetry. What is remarkable is that an artist single handedly learned by himself, the mathematical laws of the plane symmetry group including all it's isometries (i.e. translations, rotations, reflections and glide reflections) as he produced year after year patterns with interlocking shapes of unmatched beauty and provocation. He saw symmetry and beauty where others saw only a senseless repetiton. One can spend hours describing the various feelings brought out by a single image, suffice to say it would require a multi volume encyclopedia to describe in detail all that is collected in this single tome. I am flabbergasted that this book sells on the internet for as low as US $11.00. It is worth it's weight in precious diamonds. Thanks a million Doris, for doing such amicable justice to a great artist, and for providing us such a timeless treasure.
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It has been postulated that humans can differentiate between millions of gradations in color. Not surprisingly, no completely adequate, detailed catalog of colors has yet been devised, however the quest to understand, record, and depict color is as old as the quest to understand the fundamentals of the physical world and the nature of human consciousness. Rolf Kuehni’s Color Space and Its Divisions: Color Order from Antiquity to the Present represents an ambitious and unprecedented history of man’s inquiry into color order, focusing on the practical applications of the most contemporary developments in the field.
Kuehni devotes much of his study to geometric, three-dimensional arrangements of color experiences, a type of system developed only in the mid-nineteenth century. Color spaces are of particular interest for color quality-control purposes in the manufacturing and graphics industries. The author analyzes three major color order systems in detail: Munsell, OSA-UCS, and NCS. He presents historical and current information on color space developments in color vision, psychology, psychophysics, and color technology. Chapter topics include:
Experts in academia and industry, neuroscientists, designers, art historians, and anyone interested in the nature of color will find Color Space and Its Divisions to be the authoritative reference in its fi
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THE book on color spaces.......2006-12-29
I am preparing my color lectures for a computer graphics class this spring and stumbled across this book. Although its main subject is a history of color spaces (where it is the most comprehensive I have found) it also serves as an excellent way to learn about the current color spaces in use. I have always found all the active color spaces and their strengths and weaknesses confusing. Seeing how Kuehni discusses their historical context and motivations makes them much easier to understand. This is one of the best books on any subject I have read.
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