Color Bibliography

Choose one of the following books to read and write a journal-style* book report on.

Due date will be announced in class.

Albers, Josef. Interaction of Color revised edition. Yale University Press.

Ball, Philip. Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Birren, Faber, editor. Johannes Itten: The Elements of Color. Van Nostrand Reinhold.

Birren, Faber, editor. M. E. Chevreul. The Principles of Contrast Colors. Van Nostrand Reinhold.

De Grandis, Luigina. Theory and Use of Color. Harry N. Abrams.

Finlay, Victoria. Color, A Natural History of the Palette. Ballantine Books.

Gage, John. Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism. University of California Press.

Guild, Tricia, Think Color. Chronicle Books, San Francisco, ISBN 0-8118-3670-3

Miller and Wiley, Color for Interior Architecture.

Pentak, Stephen; Roth, Richard, Color Basics, Thompson/Wadsworth, ISBN 0-534-61389-6

Pile. Color in Interior Design. McGraw-Hill.

Zelanski, Paul, and Mary Pat Fisher. Color. (any edition) Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-080261-1

*Journal style means including personal reflections (including any connections between class projects and the text) on what you are reading as well as the traditional book report focus on outlining basic information.