Lightness and Brightness and Other Confusions
Lightness and Brightness and Other Confusions
Lightness and Brightness and Other Confusions
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Contents<br />
Foreword ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5<br />
Introduction C.L. Hardin ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7<br />
Natural Experiences <strong>and</strong> Physical Abstractions<br />
– On epistemology of colour <strong>and</strong> light Ulf Klarén ........................................................................... 16<br />
Knowledge about the world ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 17<br />
Knowledge beside the world ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 19<br />
Knowledge as part of the world .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 20<br />
One world, several aspects .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 22<br />
Human aesthetic coherence .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 25<br />
What to do? .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 29<br />
Seeing <strong>and</strong> Perceiving Harald Arnkil ..........................................................................................................................................................34<br />
Training the eye ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 36<br />
Seeing as a visual process ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 38<br />
Attention ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 40<br />
The artist’s gaze ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 41<br />
The parts <strong>and</strong> the whole ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 42<br />
Light <strong>and</strong> Colour: Concepts <strong>and</strong> their use Karin Fridell Anter ................ 45<br />
Light <strong>and</strong> colour as experienced through the senses ........................................................................................................... 45<br />
Light <strong>and</strong> colour according to physical theory ........................................................................................................................................ 52<br />
Using physics to describe experience ................................................................................................................................................................................... 57<br />
Conclusions: What do we mean by ‘light’ <strong>and</strong> ‘colour’? .............................................................................................. 65<br />
<strong>Lightness</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Brightness</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Other</strong> <strong>Confusions</strong> Harald Arnkil 67<br />
<strong>Lightness</strong> <strong>and</strong> brightness ……………………………………………………………........................................................................................................................................................................ 69<br />
Attempts to systemize colour ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 76<br />
Vividness of colour ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 84<br />
The real colour of objects .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 92<br />
About the authors ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 102<br />
Further reading ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 103<br />
Index ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 105
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