Color

From the contents:
Preface
Contents
INTRODUCTION
What do we Mean by Color?
Historical Survey
PHYSICS OF LIGHT AND COLOR
The Nature (Theory) of Light
Color by Refraction: Newton's Experiments
Color of the Rainbow
Peacock's Colors, a Phenomenon of Interference
How Many Causes of Color do we Know?
CHEMISTRY OF COLOR
History of Colorants
Inorganic Pigments
Organic Colorants
Correlations between Chemical Structure and Color of Chemical Compounds
COLORIMETRY
Color Measurements
Color - Harmony or Contrasts?
HOW DO WE SEE COLORS
Perception and Cognition of Color
Anatomy of the Human Eye
Photochemistry of the Retina
What does the Eye tell the Brain?
Psychophysical Investigations on Color Vision
Color Vision of Animals
HOW DO WE NAME COLORS?
From Color Chemistry to Color Linguistics
The Phenomenon (Prodigy) of Human Language
Categorization of the Color Space by Color Naming
Color and Phonological Universals
Cultural Influence on Color Naming
COLOR IN ART AND IN OTHER CULTURAL ACTIVITIES
Color in European Art from Antiquity to Gothic
From Renaissance to Neo-Impressionism
Art in the 20th Century
Color in the Art of Non-European Culture: The Case of Japan
Color in Psychology
Goethe's 'Farbenlehre'
Sound-Color Synesthesia
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Author Index
Subject Index