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Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox
Victoria Finlay
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| #1210872 in Books | imusti | 2003-05-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.76 x1.34 x5.12l,.82 | File type: PDF | 512 pages | SCEPTRE||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Art, history, culture, and chemistry!|By Sergio|A marvelous mix of history, culture, chemistry, and the practical, social, and artistic issues of the use of colour. I had no particular interest in the topic based on the title, but, after some strong recommendations, picked up this work and was captivated. It's quite a lengthy tome, but is easy to read a chapter at a time when||[Victoria Finlay's] curiosity is inexhaustible, her reading wide, and her writing style a delight Sunday Telegraph It's pure pleasure to join this gutsy arts reporter-cum-scholar on her quest for historical pigments and dyes around the world Independent A high
Part travelogue, part narrative history, Colour unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, and reveals how paints came to be invented, discovered, traded and used. This remarkable and beautifully written book remembers a time when red paint was really the colour of blood, when orange was the poison pigment, blue as expensive as gold, and yellow made from the urine of cows force-fed with mangoes. It looks at how green was carried by yaks along the silk road, and h...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox | Victoria Finlay. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
