John Gage (1938–2012)
Teoksen Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction tekijä
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Tekijän teokset
J. M. W. Turner [exposition], Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 14 octobre 1983-16 janvier 1984 : à… (1983) 14 kappaletta
George Field and his circle : from Romanticism to the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood (1989) 2 kappaletta
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Collected correspondence of J.M.W. Turner ; with an early diary and a memoir by George Jones (1980) — Toimittaja, eräät painokset — 6 kappaletta
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- Virallinen nimi
- Gage, John Stephen
- Syntymäaika
- 1938-06-28
- Kuolinaika
- 2012-02-10
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- UK (birth)
- Syntymäpaikka
- Bromley, Kent, UK
- Kuolinpaikka
- Cambridge, England, UK
- Asuinpaikat
- UK
Australia
Tuscany, Italy - Koulutus
- Oxford University (Queen's College|Modern History)
Courtauld Institute of Art (PhD|Art History|1967) - Ammatit
- art historian
museum curator
university professor - Organisaatiot
- University of East Anglia, Norwich
Cambridge University - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (1975)
Fellow of the Briitish Academy (1995)
Turner Medal of the Colour Group of Great Britain (2009)
Fellow of Wolfson College (1978-1998)
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This is denser, with more theories of perception and language of color. There is some repetition of material, chapters appearing to be modified from lectures or previously published articles. It’s also jumpier, lacking a steady flow of exposition. This is probably meant to be a textbook for art majors, but I was able to mine good stuff as a layperson.
Early Christian mosaics used raked tiles for halos in order to catch the light and glow. These works were built particularly to be experienced by lamplight and with the observer in motion, contrary to the electric lights now used for display. He quotes an early patriarch, Photius (how apt!), concerning the impressions of spectators on entering his church: “It is as if one had entered heaven itself with no one barring the way from any side, and was illuminated by the beauty in all forms shining all around like so many stars, so one is utterly amazed. Thenceforth, it seems that everything is in ecstatic motion, and the church itself is circling round. For the spectator, through his whirling about in all directions and being constantly astir, which he is forced to experience by the variegated spectacle on all sides, imagines that his personal condition is transferred to the object.”… (lisätietoja)