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The Trouble with Color

The Trouble with Color

Update: 2015-04-25

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Color is everywhere in our world, informs our sense of everything. Yet it is at the same time something elusive, mysterious and even sometimes maligned. This lecture will explore why this has been so, and discuss how color has been understood by artists since Isaac Newton.

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The Trouble with Color

The Trouble with Color

Jim Van Dyke