By Arthur Schopenhauer, Philipp Otto Runge

Author Note: Translated via Georg Stahl
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During the 1st 20 years of the 19th century, of the main major theoretical works on colour considering that Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della Pittura have been written and released in Germany: Arthur Schopenhauer's On imaginative and prescient and hues and Philipp Otto Runge's colour Sphere. For Schopenhauer, imaginative and prescient is absolutely subjective in nature and characterised by way of methods that pass over into the territory of philosophy. Runge's colour Sphere and essay The Duality of colour contained one of many first makes an attempt to depict a complete and harmonious colour procedure in 3 dimensions. Runge meant his colour sphere to be understood now not as a fabricated from artwork, yet relatively as a mathematical determine of assorted philosophical reflections. by way of bringing those visionary colour theories jointly inside of a extensive theoretical context—philosophy, artwork, structure, and design—this quantity uncovers their enduring impression on our personal notion of colour and the visible global round us.

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In fact, the ‘philosophy of praxis’ (Gramsci, 1975, p. 1437) was central to his work spanning across the Quaderni. It is Gramsci’s overarching philosophy that he contrasts with ‘common sense’. Gramsci saw ideas that reflect the dominant material relationships as residing in those areas he identifies with ‘common sense’ which contains elements of ‘good sense’ but which is, in effect, a distorted and fragmentary conception of the world. It is, according to Gramsci, a ‘philosophy of non philosophers’ (Gramsci, 1975, p.

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