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Design Media Arts: Color and Color Theory

This Library Research Guide is intended as a starting place for UCLA researchers, pointing to resources and strategies for finding information about color, color theory, color systems, and using color in design.

Rare and interesting items from the Arts Library Cage (Special Collections)

Atlas of the Munsell color system. by Munsell, A. H. (Albert Henry)
Call Number: * ND1285 .M92a 1915 Arts Library Cage Oversize*

NOTE: PDF available at: Atlas of the Munsell Color System
A color notation : an illustrated system defining all colors and their relations by measured scales of hue, value, and chroma by A.H. (Albert Henry) Munsell ; introduction by Royal B. Farnum.
Call Number: ND1280 .M9 1947 Arts Library Cage

Date: 10th edition, 1947

NOTE: Munsell chart ([3] p.) and envelope with 26 color chips inserted
A color notation, by A. H. Munsell; an illustrated system defining all colors & their relations by measured scales of hue, value, and chroma made in solid paint for the accompanying color atlas. by A. H. (Albert Henry) Munsell; Introduction by H. E. Clifford.
Call Number: ND1285 .M92c 1913 Arts Library Cage

Date: 1913; also a 1926 edition available in the Arts Cage
[Color sphere model]. by Munsell, A. H. (Albert Henry)
Call Number: ND1285 .M92cs 1900 Arts Library Cage
Interaction of color by Albers, Josef
Call Number: * ND1283 .A33i Arts Library Cage Oversize*; Arts Library Permanent Reserves
The laws of contrast of colour: and their application to the arts of painting, decoration of buildings, mosaic work, tapestry and carpet weaving, calico printing, dress, paper staining, printing, illumination, landscape and flower gardening, &c. by M.E. Chevreul
Call Number: ND1280 .C42dE Arts Library Cage
Munsell book of color; defining, explaining, and illustrating the fundamental characteristics of color. by Munsell Color Company, Inc.
Call Number: * ND1285 .M92m 1929 v.1-2 Arts Library Cage Oversize*
Munsell manual of color; defining and explaining the fundamental characteristics of color. by Frederic G. Cooper
Call Number: ND1285 .C78m 1929 Arts Library Cage
A practical description of the Munsell color system : with suggestions for its use by T.M. Cleland.
Call Number: QC495 .C58p Arts Library Cage

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