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Color, Facture, Art and Design: Artistic Technique and the Precisions of Human Perception
Author(s): Iona Singh (Author)
- Publisher: Zero Books
- Publication Date: 26 Oct. 2012
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 191 pages
- ISBN-10: 1780996292
- ISBN-13: 9781780996295
Book Description
With its appeal to the most subterranean aspects of perception art was always destined to be one of the last bastions of the transcendental in the 21st century. Color, Facture, Art and Design investigates the ‘beauty’ of art based on the somatic ‘magic’ of the physical body and its relationship to nature, arguing that the sensual affect of expert artistic combinations of art materials: pigments and resins, in some paintings exploits a bridge between the intricacies of human sentience and the external world. Art is thus more accurately located next to the sciences of language, mathematics, physiology and psychoanalysis. As the ‘pure mathematics’ of the discipline, this materialist definition of fine-art develops guidelines for architecture, design, cultural-studies and ultimately social change.
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About the Author
Iona Singh is an author and journalist specialising in art and design and specifically in the realms of art and design materials. A graduate of fine-art from the University of Portsmouth she has freelanced for The Artists and Illustrators Magazine, Interior, The Traveller, Artists Newsletter and Thalo.com and has published several hundred newspaper and magazine articles. For a number of years she wrote a personal monthly page for The Artists and Illustrators Magazine on art materials and techniques.She is also the author of refereed essays published in academic journals in the US, in Rethinking Marxism and the eco-journal Capitalism Nature Socialism. Both of these are published by the academic division of Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group.
