Thinking is more important than knowing, but not [more important] than looking for yourself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. As a reply to Newton's theories, Goethe developed a Theory of Colour (Zur Farbenlehre, published in 1810), which became a personal obsession in his last years, and which he considered more important than his literary works, but which was not well received by contemporary Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s theory of color differs from Newton’s theory in the way it views color as a subjective and emotional experience, rather than an objective property of light. Goethe believed that color arose from the interaction between light and shadow, rather than the decomposition of white light into different colors of the
With a simple stroke of green or white, a normalized body transforms into alterity. This is the magic of color. The German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s book Theory of Colors (1810) is a node in this matrix of chromatic Otherness. Goethe’s book was written in a different time period as Cresti and may not have been known to Géricault.
Zur Farbenlehre by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1970, M.I.T. Press edition, in English Theory of colours. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 0 Ratings 17 Want to read;
MIT Press, Sep 11, 2009 - Science - 156 pages. Goethe's influential text, newly illustrated with stunning color photographs. The Metamorphosis of Plants, published in 1790, was Goethe's first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend “the truth about the how of the organism.”. Inspired by the diversity of flora he
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 10.8k books 5,830 followers A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust , published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions.
内容简介 · · · · · ·. By the time Goethe's Theory of Colours appeared in 1810, the wavelength theory of light and color had been firmly established. To Goethe, the theory was the result of mistaking an incidental result for an elemental principle. Far from pretending to a knowledge of physics, he insisted that such knowledge was an
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Theory of Colours (German: Zur Farbenlehre) is a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet's views on the nature of colours and how they are perceived by humans. It was published in German in 1810 and in English in 1840.
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