How colour came to The Tablet
A world of colour: The Wizard of Oz (above); Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (below); and (right) the Christmas 1973 Tablet cover
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Anyone who read the early editions of The Tablet in a library might also have been able to read a book published in the same year: Theory of Colours, the first English translation of Zur Farbenlehre (1810) by the German philosopher Goethe.
The work was initially of most interest to fellow philosophers – Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein and Heisenberg all wrote responses – but was also acknowledged as an important influence by painters including Turner, the pre-Raphaelites and Kandinsky.
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