At Home with the Smithsonian Libraries: A Colorful Conversation
Thursday, September 3 at 5 pm ET
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Color shouts or whispers to us from every corner of our world, saturates nearly every surface we touch. An objective, quantifiable event, color is also a subjective personal experience, different for every person and deeply intertwined with language and memory. Color perception is an elusive, complex phenomenon that is still not fully understood, despite centuries of research by artists and designers, scientists and philosophers.
Join Jennifer Cohlman Bracchi, Acting Head Librarian at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Library, and Susan Brown, Associate Curator and Acting Head of Textiles at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, as they talk about their co-curated exhibition Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color. Saturated explored how the sensory experience of color has been conceived by history's greatest color thinkers and used by designers to bring both order and excitement to our visual world.
Inspired by the Libraries’ rich collection of rare books on color, Jen and Susan will guide you on a virtual tour, sharing behind-the-scenes stories and surprise discoveries they made along the way.
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IMAGE: The theory of color in its relation to art and art-industry by Wilhelm von Bezhold. L.Prang, 1876
