Color and meaning : art, science, and symbolism / John Gage.

The contexts of colour
Colour and culture
Colour in art and its literature
Colour in history: relative and absolute
Colour-words and colour-patches
Ghiberti and light
Color Colorado: cross-cultural studies in the ancient Americas
The fool's paradise
Newton and painting
Blake's Newton
Magilphs and mysteries
Turner as a colourist
'Two different worlds': Runge, Goethe and the sphere of colour
Mood indigo: from the blue flower to the blue rider
Chevreul between classicism and romanticism
The technique of Seurat: a reappraisal
Seurat's silence
Matisse's black light
Colour as language in early abstract painting
A psychological background for early modern colour
Making sense of colour: the synaesthetic dimension.