Item #61839 The Rainbow Book. A Collection of Essays and Illustrations devoted to Rainbows in Particular and Spectral Sequences in General, focusing on the meaning of Color (physically and metaphysically) from Ancient to Modern Times. Rainbows, Color.

The Rainbow Book. A Collection of Essays and Illustrations devoted to Rainbows in Particular and Spectral Sequences in General, focusing on the meaning of Color (physically and metaphysically) from Ancient to Modern Times.

Berkely: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco / Shambhala, 1975. Revised. Softcover. Quarto, 256pp. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Printed on coloured paper stock: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. A book published on the occasion of an exhibition called the Rainbow Show, held Mar. 21-June 22, 1975. The Rainbow Book "is a collection of Essays and Illustrations devoted to Rainbows in Particular and Spectral Sequences in General, focusing on the meaning of Color (both physically and metaphysically) from Ancient to Modern Times." It is a veritable encyclopedia of rainbow lore: the ar of the rainbow, including myth, magic, paintings, prints, and poems; the physics of the spectrum - light, color and the stars, and the "Music of the Spheres"; the metaphysics of color, exploring the colors of consciousness and auras (the rainbows around our bodies); as well as a history and catalogue of The Rainbow Show. Included are poems by Virgil, Dante, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth and others; paingin by Giotto, Bosch, Van der Weyden, Durer, Rubens, Blake, Turner, Constable, and Church as well as the sacred art of Tibet." Spine creased, covers darkened, bookplate on inside front cover, lengthy owner's inscription on half-title page. A better than VG copy of a fragile work - due to the glued binding and age it will need to be handled with some care if it is to remain this way. Item #61839
ISBN: 0394731085

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