'Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one'Edmund de Waal,author of The Hare with Amber EyesThe world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings,as this scintillating book reveals. Each chapter immerses the reader in a single colour,drawing together stories from the histories of art and humanity to illuminate the meanings it has been given over the eras and around the globe. Showing how artists,scientists,writers,philosophers,explorers and inventors have both shaped and been shaped by these wonderfully myriad meanings,James Fox reveals how,through colour,we can better understand their cultures,as well as our own. Each colour offers a fresh perspective on a different epoch,and together they form a vivid,exhilarating history of the world.'We have projected our hopes,anxieties and obsessions onto colour for thousands of years,'Fox writes.'The history of colour,therefore,is also a history of humanity.'
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141976655Number of pages: 320Weight: 280 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 20 mm
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A book to brighten the dullest daysA brilliantly fluent and readable history of colourFairly shimmers with Fox's eye for arresting facts and anecdotesIntelligent,vividly written...I'm going to buy three copiesFlits with enthusiasm and lightly worn learning from Bronze Age gold-workers to Turner,Titian to Yves KleinColour becomes a philosophical feast - astrophysics,the origins of civilisation,a palette of moral associationsA manual to navigate and enjoy the extraordinary design of the world around usLeads down some wonderful rabbit holesA book that makes you want to paint
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