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1.
Alice Walker's The Color Purple
Contributors:
Publisher:
Chelsea House 2000
Subjects:
Walker, Alice, 1944- Color Purple
African American Women in Literature
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...Collins, Gina Michelle. "The Color Purple: What Feminsim Can Learn From...Press, 1990.Davis, Jane. "The Color Purple: A Spiritual Descendant of Hurston...Redemptive Impulse: Wise Blood and The Color Purple."The Flannery O'Connor Bulletin...
2.
Riders of the Purple Sage
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press 1998
Subjects:
Fiction
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...alone.As he strode down the sloping terrace, rabbits scampered beforehim, and the beautiful valley quail, as purple in color as the sage onthe uplands, ran fleetly along the ground into the forest. It waspleasant under the trees, in the...
4.
Color Psychology and Color Therapy: A Factual Study of the Influence of Color on Human Life
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Publisher:
University Books 1961
Subjects:
Color--Psychological Aspects
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...Concentration upon a specific color may likewise produce a com­plementary...is a substance known as visual purple. Itscolor is normally a magenta...According to A. C.Krause, "The color of visual purple upon exposure to light atroom temperature...
5.
Form and Color in Greek Painting
Contributors:
Publisher:
W. W. Norton 1977
Subjects:
Painting, Greek
Shades And Shadows In Art
Texture (Art)
Color In Art
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...something odd about the color responses of apeople who ... admired purple beyond all other...the spectrum, purple alone does notappear as a color in wall decorations...as a prominent color in the so-called...theother hues. Purple, however, was...
6.
Creative Color
Contributors:
Publisher:
Reinhold Pub. Corp. 1961
Subjects:
Color In Art
Painting--Technique
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...It extends fromred, a color of long wave length and...blue into violet, a color of short wave lengthand...00ADlight is without true purple.Purple is formed when...yellow, green, blue,purple.Various color circles are shown in...
7.
The Enjoyment and Use of Color
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Publisher:
Charles Scribners Sons 1923
Subjects:
Color
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Purple. --The ancient word translated purple probablyrefers to a color corresponding to our crimson. It denotesimperial...as indicated by theexpression, "born to the purple." The color which we termpurple, which is a reddish violet...
8.
Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow: Color Design in the 1930s
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Texas Press 2007
Subjects:
Color Cinematography--History
Color Motion Pictures--History
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...s close-ups with color, seizing on options...by a complex palette. Purple, it seems, struck an...com­position. Color also guides attention...emphasis thanksto her purple-clad squire. Color guides viewers to the...
9.
Color and Consciousness: An Essay in Metaphysics
Contributors:
Publisher:
Temple University Press 1989
Subjects:
Color (Philosophy)
Metaphysics
Perception (Philosophy)
Knowledge, Theory Of
Consciousness
Skepticism
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...then and there think its color to be.The difficulty with...and trying to discern its color fails toestablish that what...expression of what I take its color to beeven though it does not look blue. It may look purple, but I knowthat, in this...
10.
Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2001
Subjects:
Qualia
Consciousness
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...Pegasus, between hallucinat­ing a pink elephant and a purple tiger. The obvious move is to say that wedistinguish these...by anymere formalistic description of, say, distance in a color-similarity space. OnRey's view the difference has to consist...
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