John Gage
1997
British art historian John Gage received the Sikkens Prize in 1997 on the basis of his research into and publications on the role and significance of colour in the history of Western culture.
Significance of colour
The 1997 Sikkens Prize was awarded to the British art historian John Gage, professor at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded the prize “on the basis of his research into and publications on the role and significance of colour in the history of Western culture”.
Colour and Culture
At the moment, the high point of his work is the monumental Colour and Culture, the first academically reliable book on colour in which the many histories of the use of colour, the language, philosophy, symbolism and perception of colour are interrelated in a thorough and extremely original way.
