Colour : art & science / edited by Trevor Lamb and Janine Bourriau. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995. - 237 pages : Coloured illustrations ; 26 cm. - The Darwin College lectures .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The history of colour in art / David Bomford -- Colour for the painter / Bridget Riley -- Light and colour / Malcolm Longair -- Colour mechanisms of the eye / Denis Baylor -- Seeing colour / John Mollon -- Colour in nature / Peter Parks -- Colour and culture / John Gage -- Colour in language / John Lyons.

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QC 495 / .C75 1995