Occupied By Colour

Barbara Hodgson & Claudia Cohen

As a counterpoint to the exploration of colour at play in After Image, the third volume in the colour series is devoted to colour at work. The colourful aspects of 17 occupations are presented through brief essays and illustrative examples: silks threads dyed with crushed bugs, an interpretation of Le Corbusier’s colour clavier, paint samples and hair swatches.

The book is uniform in size and overall design with the first two volumes in the series. This, however, is the first volume to actually be printed by & at Heavenly Monkey.

Set in Fournier. Bound by Claudia with leather and paste paper, boxed with various accessory items, including an equilateral prism. Edition of 30 numbered (+ 6 A.P.) copies. As with the previous titles, the first eight copies form a deluxe issue. These contains an original colour analysis of a different historical work of art. The colour analysis process is based on the work of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, as found in her idiosyncratic book Color Problems (1901). 8vo, 45 pp. HM Editions 2012