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Green sky, blue grass : colour coding worlds

Title
Green sky, blue grass : colour coding worlds / edited by Matthias Claudius Hofmann ; translation, Herwig Engelmann [and three others].
Publication
  • Bielefeld : Kerber Verlag, [2021]
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
  • Hofmann, Matthias Claudius
  • Engelmann, Herwig
  • Weltkulturen Museum (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), host institution.
Description
255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 23 cm.
Series Statement
Kerber culture
Uniform Title
Kerber culture.
Alternative Title
Green sky, blue grass : color coding worlds
Subject
  • Color (Philosophy) > Exhibitions
  • Color vision > Cross-cultural studies > Exhibitions
  • Colors, Words for > Exhibitions
  • Color (Philosophy)
  • Color vision
  • Colors, Words for
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at Weltkulturen Museum, April 1, 2021-January 30, 2022.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Translation from the German.
Contents
Foreword -- Green sky, blue grass -- Light, matter and language -- Colour and colour perception -- Let a hundred spectra shine -- White stars and golden sun -- Materiality -- Trobriand red -- Tapirage -- Redskins, cheddar and the libido -- World views -- The night, the light and the blood -- Buddhist worlds of colour in test, practice and art -- Black = noble character? -- The colour praxis of the abelam as part of a culture-specific aesthetics -- Change -- The colours of Amazonia -- Whose aesthetic is authentic? -- The art of making myths and spirits -- Plates -- Authors -- Credits.
Call Number
JQE 22-439
ISBN
  • 3735607519
  • 9783735607515
OCLC
1240412668
Title
Green sky, blue grass : colour coding worlds / edited by Matthias Claudius Hofmann ; translation, Herwig Engelmann [and three others].
Publisher
Bielefeld : Kerber Verlag, [2021]
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Kerber culture
Kerber culture.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Language
Translation from the German.
Added Author
Hofmann, Matthias Claudius, editor.
Engelmann, Herwig, translator.
Weltkulturen Museum (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), host institution.
Research Call Number
JQE 22-439
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