Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Colophon
- Dedication
- The Translator's Preface
- Preface To The First Edition Of 1810
- Directions For Placing The Plates
- Contents
- Outline of a Theory Of Colours
- PART I PHYSIOLOGICAL COLOURS
- PART II PHYSICAL COLOURS
- PART III CHEMICAL COLOURS
- PART IV GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
- PART V RELATION TO OTHER PURSUITS
- PART VI EFFECT OF COLOUR WITH REFERENCE TO MORAL ASSOCIATIONS
- Yellow
- Red-Yellow
- Yellow-Red
- Blue
- Red-Blue
- Blue-Red
- Red
- Green
- Completeness and Harmony
- Characteristic Combinations
- Yellow and Blue
- Yellow and Red
- Blue and Red
- Yellow-Red and Blue-Red
- Combinations Non-Characteristic
- Relation of the Combinations to Light and Dark
- Considerations derived from the Evidence of Experience and History
- Æsthetic Influence
- Chiaro-Scuro
- Tendency to Colour
- Keeping
- Colouring
- Colour in General Nature
- Colour of Particular Objects
- Characteristic Colouring
- Harmonious Colouring
- Genuine Tone
- False Tone
- Weak Colouring
- The Motley
- Dread of Theory
- Ultimate Aim
- Grounds
- Pigments
- Allegorical, Symbolical, Mystical Application of Colour
- Concluding Observations
- NOTES
Considerations derived from the Evidence of Experience and History
from PART VI - EFFECT OF COLOUR WITH REFERENCE TO MORAL ASSOCIATIONS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2015
- Frontmatter
- Colophon
- Dedication
- The Translator's Preface
- Preface To The First Edition Of 1810
- Directions For Placing The Plates
- Contents
- Outline of a Theory Of Colours
- PART I PHYSIOLOGICAL COLOURS
- PART II PHYSICAL COLOURS
- PART III CHEMICAL COLOURS
- PART IV GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
- PART V RELATION TO OTHER PURSUITS
- PART VI EFFECT OF COLOUR WITH REFERENCE TO MORAL ASSOCIATIONS
- Yellow
- Red-Yellow
- Yellow-Red
- Blue
- Red-Blue
- Blue-Red
- Red
- Green
- Completeness and Harmony
- Characteristic Combinations
- Yellow and Blue
- Yellow and Red
- Blue and Red
- Yellow-Red and Blue-Red
- Combinations Non-Characteristic
- Relation of the Combinations to Light and Dark
- Considerations derived from the Evidence of Experience and History
- Æsthetic Influence
- Chiaro-Scuro
- Tendency to Colour
- Keeping
- Colouring
- Colour in General Nature
- Colour of Particular Objects
- Characteristic Colouring
- Harmonious Colouring
- Genuine Tone
- False Tone
- Weak Colouring
- The Motley
- Dread of Theory
- Ultimate Aim
- Grounds
- Pigments
- Allegorical, Symbolical, Mystical Application of Colour
- Concluding Observations
- NOTES
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- Goethe's Theory of ColoursTranslated from the German, with Notes, pp. 326 - 330Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014First published in: 1840