Herb Aach (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good hardcover in a Good dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing with the full number line. Ex-library copy with the normal markings. The text is clean and bright. Color plates and b&w illustrations. 275 pp.

Hardcover. Color illustrated dj with black text, light green boards with green text on spine. 275 pp. Bw and color illustrations. From the library of American Abstract Artist Judith Rothschild. Contents: Contributions to optics -- Announcement of a thesis on color -- Why the contributions to optics were discontinued -- The derivation of the color wheel from Goethe's prism experiments -- The nature of prismatic colors -- The reconstruction of Goethe's color wheel -- The significance of Goethe's color wheel -- Goethe's reflections on method -- Precautions for the observer -- The pure phenomenon -- Quotations from the introduction to Die Propyläen -- Introduction to the lectures on physics -- The color theory -- Preface to the first edition of 1810 -- Physiological colors -- Physical colors -- Entoptic colors -- Chemical colors -- General introspective views -- Adjacent relationships -- Sensual and moral effects of color -- The eye -- Confessions of the author -- Letter to Josef Karl Stieler -- Gentle Xenien VI -- Legacy -- List of Goethe's writings on color theory -- Charles Eastlake's 1820 translation of the "didactic part" of the color theory. Good, dj has considerable wear, tear in bottom right orner, peeling around edges, other small tears elsewhere. Boards excellent, slightly yellowed at bottom edge. Stain on endpage, all other pages excellent condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. , New York. 1970. 275 pgs. Illustrated with numerous color photos and black and white figures. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The result of 50 years of labor, Goethe's material has been arranged so that readers may easily follow Goethe's reasoning, examine his illustrations, conduct his experiments, and judge the Color Theory for themselves. Although not a physicist, Goethe was a master of scientific observation and analysis. This is one of the most important writings on color to have ever been printed. Illustrated with color paintings, drawings, graphics. This American edition translated and edited by Herb Aach, with a complete facsimile reproduction of Charles Eastlake's 1820 translation of the "didactic part" of the Color Theory. EB; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 275 pages.

66 pp.; 30.5 x 23.3 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed March 1967 issue of Arts Magazine. Cover features image of Buckminster Fuller's photographic 'sketch,' Terra City, part of "Projects for Macrostructures." Contributors include Nicolas Calas, John Lucas, "Making the Scene" by Lil Picard, Laila Damiano, David Rosand, John Bailey, John Lahr, "Films" by Robert Frank, "The Beach Boys" by Mel Bochner, Frederic Tuten, "A Minimal Future: Union-Made" by John Perreault, "Models and Moments" by Dan Graham, Thomas Messer, W. Roger Rearick, "Art as Spectacle" by Dore Ashton, David Raddock, Gordon Brown, Edouard Roditi, "The Art of Suply and Demand" by Jill Johnston, and Herb Aach. Good. Light overall wear to cover and edges. Letter "E" written in ink and light staining on recto. Contents clean and unmarked.