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Enlightened Romanticism: Mary Gartside’s colour theory in the age of Moses Harris, Goethe and George Field
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posted on 2023-06-08, 12:18 authored by Alexandra LoskeThe aim of this paper is to evaluate the work of Mary Gartside, a British female colour theorist, active in London between 1781 and 1808. She published three books between 1805 and 1808. In chronological and intellectual terms Gartside can cautiously be regarded an exemplary link between Moses Harris, who published a short but important theory of colour in the second half of the eighteenth century, and J.W. von Goethe’s highly influential Zur Farbenlehre, published in Germany in 1810. Gartside’s colour theory was published privately under the disguise of a traditional water colouring manual, illustrated with stunning abstract colour blots (see example above). Until well into the twentieth century, she remained the only woman known to have published a theory of colour. In contrast to Goethe and other colour theorists in the late 18th and early 19th century Gartside was less inclined to follow the anti-Newtonian attitudes of the Romantic movement.
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Progress in Colour Studies Conference 2012Event location
University of GlasgowEvent type
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10-13th JulyDepartment affiliated with
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