The expansion of products produced with synthetic dyes was accelerated by mass consumerism as art. Wolf, KirstenĪ Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to the present, a time of extraordinary developments in colour science, philosophy, art, design and technologies. Biggam and Kirsten Wolf Read more ISBNĪ Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age (Hardback)Įdited by Steinvall, Dr Anders Street, Sarah Series edited by Biggam, Carole P. Volume 2 in the Cultural History of Color set. Kirsten Wolf is Professor of Old Norse and Scandinavian Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Biggam is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow, UK. The themes covered in each volume are color philosophy and science color technology and trade power and identity religion and ritual body and clothing language and psychology literature and the performing arts art architecture and interiors and artefacts. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Color examines how color has been created, traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5000 years. Color shapes an individual's experience of the world and also how society gives particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. And, whilst medieval philosophers began to explain the rainbow, theologians and artists developed a color symbolism for both virtues and vices. Color names were created in various languages and their resonance explored in poems, romances, epics, and plays. Color was used to denote affiliation in heraldry and social status in medieval clothes. The medieval age saw an extraordinary burst of color - from illuminated manuscripts and polychrome sculpture to architecture and interiors, and from enamelled and jewelled metalwork to colored glass an. Wolf, KirstenĪ Cultural History of Color in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400. A Cultural History of Color in the Medieval Age (Hardback)
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