Name: Colour: (Cw 291)
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Author: Steiner, Rudolf ; Thompson, Joan M. ; Salter, Joan
ISBN: 9781855840850

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Physical Book

Author

Preface by

Translated by

Publisher

Year

2002

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6x15x1.4 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN

1855840855

ISBN13

9781855840850

Edition No.

0002

Synopsis "Colour: (Cw 291)"

3 lectures, Dornach, May 6-8, 1921; 9 supplementary talks, Dornach, 1914-1924, (CW 291)Building on the achievements of Goethe in his "theory of color," Rudolf Steiner shows how color affects us in many areas of life, including our health, our sense of well being, and our feelings. Distinguishing between "image" and "luster" colors, he lays the foundation, based on his spiritual scientific research, for a practical technique of working with color that leads to a new direction in artistic creativity.His many penetrating remarks on some of the great painters of the past are supplemented by a deep concern to see a cultural, spiritual renewal emerge in the present time. "If you realize," he states, "that art always has a relation to the spirit, you will understand that both in creating and appreciating it, art is something through which one enters the spiritual world."This volume is the most comprehensive compilation of Rudolf Steiner's insights into the nature of color, painting, and artistic creation. It is an invaluable source of reference and study not only for artists and therapists, but also for anyone interested in gaining an appreciation of art as a revelation of spiritual realities.This volume is a translation from German of Das Wesen der Farben (GA 291).

Rudolf Steiner

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Rudolf Steiner (Donji Kraljevec, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Croatia, February 25 or 27, 1861-Dornach, Switzerland, March 30, 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, educator, artist, playwright, social thinker, and occultist. He was the founder of anthroposophy, Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophic medicine, and the new artistic form of eurythmy.

He described anthroposophy as follows: Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge that would like to lead the spiritual in man to the spiritual in the universe. Those who feel certain questions about the essence of man and the world as a vital necessity as the one felt when we are hungry and thirsty can be anthroposophists.

Steiner proposed a form of ethical individualism, to which he later added a more explicitly spiritual component. He derived his epistemology from the worldview of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, according to which thought is an organ of perception just like the eye or the ear. Just as the eye perceives colors and the ear sounds, so thought perceives ideas.

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