Color: A Multidisciplinary Approach Book

1	Introduction	1
1.1	What Do We Mean by Color?	1
1.2	Historical Survey	3
2	Physics of Light and Color	11
2.1	The Nature of Light	11
2.2	Color by Refraction: Newton's Experiments	18
2.3	The Rainbow	21
2.4	Peacock's Colors: A Phenomenon of Interference	28
2.5	How Many Causes of Color Do We Know?	36
3	Chemistry of Color	41
3.1	History of Colorants	41
3.2	Inorganic Pigments	46
3.3	Organic Colorants	49
3.4	Correlations between Chemical Structure and Color	56
4	Colorimetry	63
4.1	Color Measurement	63
4.2	Color: Harmony or Contrasts?	71
5	How Do We See Colors?	79
5.1	Perception and Cognition of Color	79
5.2	Anatomy of the Human Eye	81
5.3	Photochemistry in the Retina	87
5.4	What the Eye 'Tells' the Brain	93
5.5	Psychophysical Investigations into Color Vision	103
5.6	Color Vision in Animals	112
6	How Do We Name Colors?	123
6.1	From Color Chemistry to Color Linguistics	123
6.2	The Phenomenon of 'Human Language'	125
6.3	Categorization of the Color Space by Color Naming	127
6.4	Color and Phonological Universals	136
6.5	Influence of Culture on Color Naming	141
7	Color in Art and in Other Cultural Activities	161
7.1	Color in European Art from Antiquity to Gothic	161
7.2	From Renaissance to Neo-Impressionism	175
7.3	Color in Twentieth-Century Art	188
7.4	Color in the Art of Non-European Cultures: The Case of Japan	197
7.5	Color in Psychology	207
7.6	Goethe's Zur Farbenlehre	212
7.7	Sound - Color Synesthesia	220
8	Epilogue	233
	Name Index	245
	Subject Index	249