History and Philosophy of Media 2012 Seminar 2

1. MECM90015 History and Philosophy of Media 2012
1. Problems of Periodisation: colour

2. Jan van Eyck, “The Arnolfini Double Protrait” (aka The Arnolfini Weddding), 1434
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Jan_van_Eyck_001.jpg

4. Isaac Newton, sketch of experiment with prism, 1672

5. Colour Wheel from Goethe’s Colour Theory (Zur Farbenlehre), 1810

6. 18-year-old William Perkin synthesises first
aniline mauve dye in his bedroom in Shadwell
in 1856
Arthur Hughes “AprilLove” 1856

7. CIE LAB colour space 1931

11. Typical colour gamuts mapped to the CIE LAB diagram