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Dec. -Jan., L937-8
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LEN LYE reviews
Major Kleins " Coloured Light
Technical
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Ltd., 30/-.
and technical outline ol irpcn vour own thoughts
All technicians take a how: all technicians advancing their work take a double bow. If you read this hook you'll know whv. It's " Why " makes the wheels oi thought go round. Particularly the wheels connected with colour pleasures. Mainly treating colour as colour in its own rights as a medium of art for both creative and receptive sensory stimulation. In other words, Sir— beauty, loveliness, or any other word you have for aesthetic kick. And the technical rdvancements that give a greater means for its expression.
The subject mutter is put down in a clear, concis statement of theory, practice, colour manipulations which sli
about colour or create new ones. And vour new thoughts may sharpen the appreciation of the work listed and done by the pioneers in creative colour and its mechanics.
We're lucky to have research workers who can not only give lucid' details oi their views and experiments, but also those of other workers in the same or analogous fields.
A. 13. Klein has marshalled the theories and reference data of seemingl} even known worker in the field of colour thought in its scientific and aesthetic aspects He presents mature theories and puts forward interesting viewpoints on the social values and standards of painting, music, and the colour research in which he has taken a large share.
I myself am no technician and designate myself as a colour-playboy intent on my contact with reality to supply it with a mental aphrodisiac just for the sake of what happens.
The author is versed in the Western European art traditions and has kept alive his own thoughts in relation to them, which is also evidence to me that the technical knowledge outlined in the book is as advanced in content.
This is a relief to find nowadays when the external forces of reality absorb so much of our mind's virility on problems of economics, social organisation, human annihilation, liberties, and so on; so that we have hardly any mind left for creating or approaching mind gems in any aesthetic medium.
Film people who feel that eventually they will be dealing with the more subtle of the aesthetic problems in colour films will find many oblique lines of thought bearing on film presentation, such as hack-projected colour in sensory movement for sets presenting dance, drama, music, and the placing of characters in colour controlled movement backgrounds.
If the book is too expensive in these days of incessant economic demands and upsets, at least it is worth having access to in the studio or general reference library, to read in between jobs, and as a preparation lor a selfconfident contribution to the only thing that matters finally apart from behaviour and bread and butter, nameh , the subtleties of mind content invested in beauty.
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