A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800. From the Baroque to the Neo-classical, color transformed art, architecture, ceramics, jewelry, and glass. Newton, using a prism, demonstrated the seven separate hues, which encouraged the development of color wheels and tables, and the increased standardization of color names. Technological advances in color printing resulted in superb maps and anatomical and botanical images. Identity and wealth were signalled with color, in uniforms, flags, and fashion. And the growth of empires, trade, and slavery encouraged new ideas about color.Color shapes an individual's experience of the world and also how society gives particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. 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. 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.Carole P. Biggam is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow, UK. Kirsten Wolf is Professor of Old Norse and Scandinavian Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.Volume 4 in the Cultural History of Color set.General Editors: Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten Wolf

The first systematic history of color in Western culture in the Age of Enlightenment.

VOLUME 4: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF COLOR IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENTEdited by Carole Biggam, University of Glasgow, UK, & Kirsten Wolf, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA1. Philosophy and Science, Anna Marie Roos2. Technology and Trade, Alexander Engel3. Power and Identity, Monika Barget4. Religion and Ritual, Felicity Loughlin5. Body and Clothing, Mechthild Fend and Amelia Rauser6. Language and Psychology, João Paulo Silvestre7. Literature and the Performing Arts, Timothy Campbell8. Art, Karin Leonhard9. Architecture and Interiors, Basile Baudez10. Artefacts, Clive Edwards