Class "Color Experience in Art and Life"

Class “Color Experience in Art in Life”, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford, fall 2016.

Visual and sybaritic creatures that we are, the qualitative characteristics that most seem to attract our attention are those connected with colors and pains. Let us make the more agreeable choice and elect colors as our subject of inquiry in the following pages, for there is pain enough in the effort to understand them.

−− C. L. HARDIN. Color for Philosophers: Unweaving the Rainbow