BERLIN:
International Conference: Colour in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Connexions between Science, Arts and Technology, June 2012
The knowledge of how to use, combine, analyze and understand colour has
always been widely distributed, if not dispersed. Painters and
architects, dyers and printers, pigment producers and merchants,
physicists and chemists, natural historians and physiologist, among
others, have been dealing with colour, its properties, mixtures,
harmonies, meanings and uses. For long periods, different communities
that were concerned with colour and the knowledge about it did not
interact―at least so it appears. One of the first to come up with
fundamental claims concerning colour in full generality was Newton whose
1704 Opticks indeed quickly became a common reference
point―positive or negative―for most of those who reflected on colour.
The conference, which will not have parallel sessions, shall address
those connexions between various fields. There will be four keynote
lectures (Jenny Balfour-Paul, Ulrike Boskamp, Sarah Lowengard, Alan
Shapiro) and about 20 contributed papers.
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