Antecedents

AUTHORS WHO HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT SIMILAR PHENOMENA BEFORE 1990
(under different denominations: appearance, geometric attributes of appearance, quality of surfaces, transparency, translucency, turbidity, gloss, matte appearance, mirrorlike appearance, etc.)

Ancient

1809

Philipp Otto Runge

RUNGE, Philipp Otto [1777-1810]. 1809. “Von der Doppelheit der Farbe“. Posthumous publication in: Philipp Otto Runge. Hinterlassene Schriften (Hamburg: Friedrich Perthes, 1840), pp. 141-146.
· English translation by Rolf G. Kuehni, “On the dual nature of color“. In: Philipp Otto Runge’s Color Sphere. A translation, with related materials and an essay (2008), pp. 72-75.

Runge considers how color is modified by the material in which it appears. The dual nature of color is the possibility of being transparent or opaque. He also realizes (as Wittgenstein will do much later) that white cannot be transparent, and differentiates between blackness (a quality of opaque surfaces) and darkness (which can refer to transparent colors). Runge also conceives the possibility of an order system for transparent colors, besides his color sphere, meant for opaque colors.

1911

David Katz

KATZ, David [1884-1953]. 1911. Die Erscheinungsweisen der Farben und ihre Beeinflussung durch die individuelle Erfahrung (Leipzig).
· 2nd edition, Der Aufbau der Farbwelt (Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1930).
· English translation by R. B. MacLeod and C. W. Fox, The world of color (London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1935). Reprinted (New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1970).

1951

Ludwig Wittgenstein

WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig [1889-1951]. 1950-1951. [Bemerkungen über die Farben] (Oxford and Cambridge, England: manuscript).
· German-English posthumous bilingual edition by G. E. M. Anscombe, with translation by Linda L. McAlister and Margarete Schättle, Bemerkungen über die Farben / Remarks on colour (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977).
· French translation by Gérard Granel, edited by G. E. M. Anscombe, Remarques sur les couleurs (Paris: Trans Euro Repress, 1983).
· Italian translation, Osservazioni sui colori (Turin: Giulio Einandi, 1977).
· Portuguese translation, Anotações sobre as cores (Lisbon: Edições 70, 1997).
· Spanish translation by Alejandro Tomasini Bassols, Observaciones sobre los colores (Barcelona: Paidós, 1994).

1953

OSA

OSA (Optical Society of America) [1916-], Committee on Colorimetry. 1953. The science of color (New York: Crowell).

1954

Sven Hesselgren

HESSELGREN, Sven [1907-1993]. 1954. Arkitekturens uttrycksmedel (Stockholm: Almquist & Wiskell).
· Spanish translation by Bengt J. Dahlbäck, with technical revision by César Jannello, Los medios de expresión de la arquitectura (Buenos Aires: Eudeba, 1964).

1967

Sven Hesselgren

HESSELGREN, Sven [1907-1993]. 1967. The language of architecture (Lund, Sweden: Studentlitteratur).
Spanish translation by Miguel E. Hall, El lenguaje de la arquitectura (Buenos Aires: Eudeba, 1973).

1969

Richard S. Hunter

HUNTER, Richard Sewall [1909-1991]. 1969. “Geometric and color attributes of object appearance”. In: AIC Color 69, Proceedings of the First Congress of the International Color Association, Stockholm, 9-13 June 1969, ed. M. Richter (Göttingen, Germany: Muster-Schmidt, 1970), vol. 1, pp. 525-529.

1974

Ralph M. Evans

EVANS, Ralph Merril [1908-1974]. 1974. The perception of color (New York: John Wiley & Sons).

1975

Richard S. Hunter

HUNTER, Richard Sewall [1909-1991]. 1975. The measurement of appearance (New York: John Wiley & Sons).
· 2nd edition by Richard Sewall Hunter and Richard W. Harold, 1987.

1977

John B. Hutchings

HUTCHINGS, John B. [1932-]. 1977. “The importance of visual appearance of foods to the food processor and the consumer”. In: Sensory Properties of Foods, Proceedings of the International Symposium, Weybridge, Surrey, April 1977, eds. G. G. Birch, J. G. Parker & K. J. Parker (London: Applied Science Publishers), 45-57.
· Republished in Journal of Food Quality 1, 1977: 267-278.
HUTCHINGS, John B. [1932-]. 1977. “Colour and translucency as food attributes”. In: AIC Color 77, Proceedings of the Third Congress of the International Color Association, Troy, New York, 10-15 July 1977, eds. F. Billmeyer & G. Wyszecki (Bristol, England: Adam Hilger, 1978), 467-470.

1981

John B. Hutchings

HUTCHINGS, John B. [1932-], and C. J. GORDON. 1981. “Translucency specification and its application to a model food system”. In: AIC Color 81, Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the International Color Association, Berlin, 21-25 September 1981, ed. M. Richter, vol. 1 (Berlin: Deutsche farbwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft), section C4.

1989

Paul Green-Armytage

GREEN-ARMYTAGE, Paul. [1939-]. 1989. “Colour and other aspects of appearance”. Invited paper for Colour Renaissance, the Second National Conference of the Colour Society of Australia, October 1989, manuscript.
· Published in Spectrum, Newsletter of the Colour Society of Australia 6 (3), 1992: 1-11.