Color Studies

Ian Dooley (School of Advanced Study, University of London) on 'Chemical Colour, the ‘Coal-tar’ Pigment Revolution in British Printing Ink 1850–1885'
 

Ian is a third year PhD student whose thesis, Printing Ink Manufacturing in Britain and Its Impact on Print Culture and Society: 1850–1915, draws a missing link between the chemical experimentations, technological innovations, and business decisions of British ink manufactures and the technological and visual developments of printing during the late nineteenth century.

https://ies.sas.ac.uk/people/ian-dooley

Organizer: Elizabeth Savage

 “Patrick Syme’s Field Guide to Color: Past, Present and Future” 

Joyce Dixon (Independent Art Historian), Peter Davidson (Senior Curator of Minerals, at the National Museums Scotland), Patrick Baty (Independent Scholar and Colorist)

Organizer: Giulia Simonini

On the Multivalent Nature of Colors
                          Or ... what can Prussian blue tell us about color in the world?
Prussian blue has a winding history and a myriad of uses. Since discovery of the pigment in the early 18th century it has been improved, converted, adapted, substituted, and traded within a variety of platforms. It has been called the quintessential inorganic pigment. Its chemistry and physics were long misunderstood.
 
Join us for a discussion about the many ways colors may simultaneously inhabit nature, art, life, and the imagination, using Prussian blue as a reference point.
We're planning

• a look into questions about the history, production, use, meaning, chemistry and physics of Prussian blue
• a meeting with YOUR active participation. Contact us and we'll ask you to share your very short answer (2 minutes!) to a question about  some aspect of Prussian blue in the sciences or in the world
• a discussion of findings and what they might mean as s we try to understand color and coloring in their many forms.

More information here: https://bit.ly/4eMcPre
Look at or add to our bibliography about Prussian blue here: https://bit.ly/3ZckUQc
 
Organizer: Sarah Lowengard, with Sarah K. Rich and her team at the Center for Visual/Material Culture (Penn State University)

Charlotte Ribeyrol (Sorbonne Université and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) on 'the Colourful Literary Imagination of the Victorian architect William Burges (1827-1881)'

Charlotte Ribeyrol is Professor of 19th-century British literature at the Sorbonne, Honorary Curator at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and head of the CHROMOTOPE project.

Organizer: Elizabeth Savage

Charlotte Ribeyrol (Sorbonne Université and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) on 'the Colourful Literary Imagination of the Victorian architect William Burges (1827-1881)'

Charlotte Ribeyrol is Professor of 19th-century British literature at the Sorbonne, Honorary Curator at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and head of the CHROMOTOPE project.

Organizer: Elizabeth Savage

Charlotte Ribeyrol (Sorbonne Université and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) on 'the Colourful Literary Imagination of the Victorian architect William Burges (1827-1881)'

Charlotte Ribeyrol is Professor of 19th-century British literature at the Sorbonne, Honorary Curator at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and head of the CHROMOTOPE project.

Organizer: Elizabeth Savage

Charlotte Ribeyrol (Sorbonne Université and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) on 'the Colourful Literary Imagination of the Victorian architect William Burges (1827-1881)'

Charlotte Ribeyrol is Professor of 19th-century British literature at the Sorbonne, Honorary Curator at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and head of the CHROMOTOPE project.

Organizer: Elizabeth Savage