Color Chart: Reinventing Color: 1950 to Today

by Melissa Ho and Briony Fer

Color Chart addresses the impact of standardized, mass-produced color on the art of the past 60 years. Taking the commercial color chart as its central metaphor, this volume chronicles an important artistic shift that took place during the middle of the twentieth century: a frank acknowledgment of color as a matter-of-fact element rather than a vehicle of spiritual or emotional content. Collected here are more than 40 artists who explore in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870707310
• ISBN13: 9780870707315
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 3.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.4" x 12.1"