Language of Color
by Dorothee Mella
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Author: Dorothee MellaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1988-09-01
ISBN: 0446387819
Number of pages: 164
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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- ISBN13: 9780446387811
- Condition: New
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Book Review: Fun but Not Accurate
Summary: 2 Stars
Dorothee Mella has insightful ideas, but applies them inaccurately with archaic and biased color stereotypes. Her book is very fun to read but provides less information about yourself than she promises. She does, however, show you how to practically incorporate needed colors where it may be difficult.
I usually give authors the benefit of the doubt but her quiz analysis is vague and phrased in such a way that any answer would apply. So much time is spent discussing what you'll discover about yourself. But many of the quiz results are a trite, one word sentence analysis. I also found the results of the quiz to be unusually inaccurate when my friends and I took them.
She understands the importance of color as a powerful tool. She has insightful ideas of how colors can be applied to your psyche. For example, how your yuck color reflects an aspect of yourself where you are weak. This is great, except she make seems to use biased and archaic stereotypes of colors. For instance:
--She assumes anything related to the color Gold is about finances and wealth. The actual psychological influence of gold is warmth, beauty and power.
--She views Black as depressing and it means you're better off alone than with a partner. She fails to see the security and calm that many people are attracted to in the color black.
--She makes the mistake of applying an object in the world to the color. Like mint green and apple green. Your feelings about the color is now swayed toward your emotions for the object, not the color. I've never liked mint so its hard for me to have an unbiased opinion about the color the way she has written it.
My friends have difficulty answering simply: "What is your favorite color?" They would have a tough time with her questions like:
which color represents you the best, which is different from but not conflicting with your first color, which color unifies the other colors, which color harmonizes with your first color, which color motivates all those colors.
I would recommend the book Life Colors by Pamala Oslie. People of all kinds have gotten sucked into this book when I bring it with me. Everyone who has taken her quiz finds it incredibly accurate. I have never seen this amount of accuracy in a quiz or book before. So far 15 people around me have asked me to do the quiz with them and all of them were inspired by the answers. Many have asked to borrow my book and have bought the book themselves afterwards. I've loved colors all my life and no one has been this interested in colors before. Its been a joy to learn about my friends and acquaintances so thoroughly through the Life Colors book. The Language of Color was fun but not so accurate.
If you like colors, buy Life Colors not The Language of Color.
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The first complete, comprehensive book on color shows readers how understanding and using color can make a positive difference in how they feel, how they behave, and how they interact with other people.Mental Health Books
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