![]() ![]() It is suggested that the scientific colour hypothesis of Edwin H. ![]() It is suggested that Albers' belief in the importance of colour deception is related to a misconception about aesthetic appreciation (that it depends upon some kind of confusion about visual perception). In each case Albers is shown to have made fundamental errors with serious consequences for his general claims about colour and his pedagogical method. Four topics in Albers' account of colour are examined critically: additive and subtractive colour mixture, the tonal relations of colours, the Weber-Fechner Law and simultaneous contrast. Lee undertakes to refute Albers' general claims about colour experience (that colour deceives continually) and to show that Albers' system of perceptual education is fundamentally misleading (Albers 'places practice before theory'). ![]() Joseph Albers' book "Interaction of Color" is widely influential but, according to Lee, has not received close critical attention. ![]()
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