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B is for bear, book, beauty and bizarre. B- is my name. From time to time I will hibernate this site in order to finish a PhD, but these reviews that I am still adding to stand as a ruined archive for my thoughts, fears, pleasures and tributes that I will return to with a vengeance when the storm of knowledge clears. My daddy is etheoreal. I am a joyously mad and maudlin mystic -
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University of Delaware: Recent Aquisitions Online Exhibition
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May 13, 6:54pm
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•http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhib...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is best known as a celebrated literary figure of the German Romantic period. While most critics would point to Faust as his most important work, Goethe himself considered his greatest achievement his Farbenlehre, or his science of color. This work, published in 1810, disputes Newton's theory that white light is made up of a spectrum of colors. Goethe argued instead that colors resulted from a mixture of dark and light, an idea demonstrated in the color plate shown here. Despite Goethe's confidence in his theory, it was based on a misunderstanding of Newtonian optics and has long been considered a failure.
Sir Charles Eastlake translated and published Goethe's Farbenlehre, not because he agreed with Goethe's attack on Newton, but because Goethe's ideas about color closely mirrored those of the Renaissance and so were useful for the practice of painting. Eastlake's translation made Goethe's ideas very influential in England, especially for the Pre-Raphaelites and for J.M.W. Turner, who made a careful study of the book and applied its ideas to his own unique approach to color.
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