Optional Reading: Dave Hickey - "Pontormo's Rainbow", from Air Guitar. This essay is quoted extensively in Chromophobia. If you want to read the rest, here it is.
Josef Albers - Interaction of Color, PDF of the whole book
Better Option: Interaction of Color Complete Digital Edition is now available in the libraries' catalog.
Note From Jill Chisnell: "If you or students have any problems accessing the full-text edition from off-campus, try clearing your cache. This worked for me the first time I tried to get to the full-text. The "Full VPN" is also an option for off-campus access."
Albers' Interaction of Color is also available as an interactive app for the ipad.
Optional Reading: Adam Rogers - Full Spectrum Chapter 7: Color Words, (Pages 138-159) This chapter has an expanded discussion of the Berlin-Kay studies and the scientific questions that are raised by questions of color language.
A Video Lecture version of the article can be found here. It's almost the same as the written version plus you can see her illustrations and enjoy her charming presentation at the Whitney Museum.
With 100 Pounds of Blue Pigment, an Artist Conjures Spirits of the Past, New York Times article about Amanda Williams
Adam Rogers - Chapter 10: Screens (part), pages 200-212. A discussion of future-facing color technologies at Pixar and Dolby.
Color and Information Edward Tufte
Beige on an SUV Will Cost You, But For Pickups It's Golden from the NYTimes, by Roy Furchgott (Optional reading)
Michael Taussig - What Color is the Sacred? (optional reading - an anthropological approach that covers some of the same ground as Chromophobia)
Sophie Naess - Color (optional reading - a short, kind of silly picture book based on Albers' Interaction of Color)
Color Glossary (optional reading resource)