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Vol. 23, No.3
May 2001

 

New Book

Color: A Multidisciplinary Approach


A new book by Heinrich Zollinger, published by Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany and Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta, Zürich, Switzerland.
Hardcover, 1999, x + pp. 1-258. ISBN 3-906390-18-7, USD 120.00, GBP 59.50, DM 198, CHF 176.

Contents

Preface; Contents; Introduction: What do We Mean by Color?/Historical Survey; Physics of Light and Color: The Nature (Theory) of Light/Color by Refraction: Newton' s Experiments/Color of the Rainbow/ Peacock' s Colors, a Phenomenon of Interference/How Many Causes of Color Do We Know?; Chemistry of Color: History of Colorants/Inorganic Pigments/Organic Colorants/Correlations between Chemical Structure and Color of Chemical Compounds; Colorimetry: Color Measurements/Color–Harmony or Contrasts?; How Do We See Colors: Perception and Cognition of Color/Anatomy of the Human Eye/Photochemistry of the Retina/What Does the Eye Tell the Brain?/Psycho-physical Investigations on Color Vision/Color Vision of Animals; How Do We Name Colors?: From Color Chemistry to Color Linguistics/The Phenomenon (Prodigy) of Human Language/Categorization of the Color Space by Color Naming/Color and Phonological Universals/Cultural Influence on Color Naming; Color in Art and in Other Cultural Activities: Color in European Art from Antiquity to Gothic/From Renaissance to Neo-Impressionism/Art in the 20th Century/Color in the Art of Non-European Culture: The Case of Japan/Color in Psychology/Goethe' s "Farbenlehre"/Sound-Color Synesthesia; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Author Index; Subject Index

This book by Heinrich Zollinger, an emeritus professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and past President and current Affiliate Member of IUPAC, is sure to interest many readers of CI. After all, as stated on the Wiley-VCH web site, "Who is not attracted, fascinated, or even amazed by the world of colors?" Prof. Zollinger spent his long career specializing in color and textile chemistry, and he has had a lifelong love affair with the spectrum between red and violet. He writes in a very accessible manner that will appeal to chemists, physicists, neuroscientists, psychologists, ophthalmologists, interior designers, painters, and visual artists of all types. Thomas Lazar, a professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany, writes in his review in Science (Vol. 288, p. 1351, 26 May 2000) that the text is "accompanied by informative graphics and many high-quality reproductions of photographs and paintings". Prof. Zollinger also discusses the role of linguistics in designating special terms to describe colors and colorfulness. As Prof. Lazar states in his review, "Zollinger' s account is itself a kaleidoscope of color. The chapters proceed in a logical order from the physics of light and the chemistry of colorants, through the biology of vision, to the culture of visual arts. Each, however, can be read independently, which makes it easy to dive into the next, wherever one is lured. After exploring Zollinger' s varied perspectives, readers will look at the colorful world around them with increased awareness and appreciation".

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