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Shaping Colour

@ColourShaping

An online exhibition celebrating colour publications held by @StAndrewsUniLib and @UofGlasgowASC, launched January 2020. Funded by @sgsah for the SURCAS scheme.

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Joyce Dixon@joyce_dixon_23 Jul 2020
A digital close-up of Syme's 1814 colour charts = a rainy-day treat. This copy made its way from the hands of the author to the RSA by way of Edinburgh's Wernerian Natural History Society, a local bookseller, and the artist and @RoyalScotAcad President William Fettes Douglas.
Royal Scottish Academy (@RoyalScotAcad) profile pictureRoyal Scottish Academy@RoyalScotAcad23 Jul 2020
This weeks @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange has a botanical theme. We've selected Patrick Syme's amazing wee book 'Nomenclature of Colours' from our collections, which Charles Darwin took on The Beagle. Turn the pages of it online in our new RSA Bookshelf! ow.ly/UTEP50AFXPa
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Joyce Dixon@joyce_dixon_6 Jul 2020
Two porcelain colour palettes, two centuries apart. Modern @meissen_porcelain factory samples (left) and their early nineteenth-century counterparts, held at @TUBergakademie.
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Joyce Dixon@joyce_dixon_19 Jun 2020
Today is the final day of the Ordering Colours Workshop @TUBerlin. My joint paper with Peter Davidson (@NtlMuseumsScot) will explore the transfer of chromatic and mineralogical knowledge between Saxony and Scotland in the early 19th C. eventbrite.com/e/workshop-or…
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Joyce Dixon@joyce_dixon_2 Jun 2020
Very much looking forward to escaping into colour this Friday for day 1 of the 'Ordering Colours in 18th and Early 19th Century Europe' (now virtual) conference at @TUBerlin. zwg.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/c…
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Measuring rare colour books sitting their cradles, in preparation for an exhibition on colour @ComptonVerney later this year: Mary Gartside's Essay on Light and Shade (1805), Patrick Syme's Werner's Nomenclature (1821) and Emily Noyes Vanderpoel's Color Problems (1902). #oncolour
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Natalie Ferris@n_l_ferris27 Apr 2020
Inimitable Edwin Morgan born #OTD in 1920. Follow @EdMorganTrust #edwinmorgan100 for a week of centenary celebrations! Here, some spirited, flickering words for another lockdown Monday, The Colour Poems (1978), creating ‘a mental as well as a visual dapple’ #colour #poems
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Joyce Dixon@joyce_dixon_5 Feb 2020
18th C embodiments of Sulphur Yellow from Scotland and Saxony, which I'll be discussing this afternoon at @ECRS_Edinburgh, 4.30pm @IASH_Edinburgh
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Marvellous work from our old friend @joyce_dixon_
Edinburgh College of Art (@eca_edinburgh) profile pictureEdinburgh College of Art@eca_edinburgh10 Jan 2020
This brilliant resource on colour publications, created by @joyce_dixon_ a History of Art PhD student here at ECA, is now live! Delve into the online exhibition, take a closer look at a cross-section of books and explore these diverse and colourful collections.👏
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This brilliant resource on colour publications, created by @joyce_dixon_ a History of Art PhD student here at ECA, is now live! Delve into the online exhibition, take a closer look at a cross-section of books and explore these diverse and colourful collections.👏
Shaping Colour (@ColourShaping) profile pictureShaping Colour@ColourShaping9 Jan 2020
Very pleased to announce that the Shaping Colour website is now up and running at shapingcolour.co.uk. The project celebrates rare books on colour in the collections of @StAndrewsUniLib and @UofGlasgowASC, funded very kindly by @sgsah. Enjoy!
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Something to brighten up the end of your week - this lovely resource from @ColourShaping that features some of our books on colour along with examples from @StAndrewsUniLib
Shaping Colour (@ColourShaping) profile pictureShaping Colour@ColourShaping9 Jan 2020
Very pleased to announce that the Shaping Colour website is now up and running at shapingcolour.co.uk. The project celebrates rare books on colour in the collections of @StAndrewsUniLib and @UofGlasgowASC, funded very kindly by @sgsah. Enjoy!
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A beautiful collection of rare books, making for a wonderfully colourful output from the research of @joyce_dixon_
Shaping Colour (@ColourShaping) profile pictureShaping Colour@ColourShaping9 Jan 2020
Very pleased to announce that the Shaping Colour website is now up and running at shapingcolour.co.uk. The project celebrates rare books on colour in the collections of @StAndrewsUniLib and @UofGlasgowASC, funded very kindly by @sgsah. Enjoy!
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Join @CScapecchi @DexterGovan @heartovglass this evening 5pm G.01 50 George Square for some material culture research and discussion
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