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The secret lives of colour / Kassia St Clair.

By: Publisher: London : John Murray (Publishers), 2016Description: 319 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781473630819
  • 1473630819
  • 9781473649460
  • 1473649463
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Ebook version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 152.145 23 S798
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Colour vision: How we see -- Simple arithmetic: On light -- Building the palette: Artists and their pigments -- Vintage paint charts: Mapping colour -- Chromophilia, chromophobia: Politics of colour -- Colourful language: Do words shape the shades we see? -- Lead white -- Ivory -- Silver -- Whitewash -- Isabelline -- Chalk -- Beige -- Blonde -- Lead-tin yellow -- Indian yellow -- Acid yellow -- Naples yellow -- Chrome yellow -- Gamboge -- Orpiment -- Imperial yellow -- Gold -- Dutch orange -- Saffron -- Amber -- Ginger -- Minium -- Nude -- Baker-Miller pink -- Mountbatten pink -- Puce -- Fuchsia -- Shocking pink -- Fluorescent pink -- Amaranth -- Scarlet -- Cochineal -- Vermilion -- Rosso corsa -- Hematite -- Madder -- Dragon's blood -- Tyrian purple -- Orchil -- Magenta -- Mauve -- Heliotrope -- Violet -- Ultramarine -- Cobalt -- Indigo -- Prussian blue -- Egyptian blue -- Woad -- Electric blue -- Cerulean -- Verdigris -- Absinthe -- Emerald
Note continued: Kelly green -- Scheele's green -- Terre verte -- Avocado -- Celadon -- Khaki -- Buff -- Fallow -- Russet -- Sepia -- Umber -- Mummy -- Taupe -- Kohl -- Payne's grey -- Obsidian -- Ink -- Charcoal -- Jet -- Melanin -- Pitch black.
Summary: The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book Kassia St Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilisation. Across fashion and politics, art and war, The Secret Lives of Colour tell the vivid story of our culture.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-314) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Colour vision: How we see -- Simple arithmetic: On light -- Building the palette: Artists and their pigments -- Vintage paint charts: Mapping colour -- Chromophilia, chromophobia: Politics of colour -- Colourful language: Do words shape the shades we see? -- Lead white -- Ivory -- Silver -- Whitewash -- Isabelline -- Chalk -- Beige -- Blonde -- Lead-tin yellow -- Indian yellow -- Acid yellow -- Naples yellow -- Chrome yellow -- Gamboge -- Orpiment -- Imperial yellow -- Gold -- Dutch orange -- Saffron -- Amber -- Ginger -- Minium -- Nude -- Baker-Miller pink -- Mountbatten pink -- Puce -- Fuchsia -- Shocking pink -- Fluorescent pink -- Amaranth -- Scarlet -- Cochineal -- Vermilion -- Rosso corsa -- Hematite -- Madder -- Dragon's blood -- Tyrian purple -- Orchil -- Magenta -- Mauve -- Heliotrope -- Violet -- Ultramarine -- Cobalt -- Indigo -- Prussian blue -- Egyptian blue -- Woad -- Electric blue -- Cerulean -- Verdigris -- Absinthe -- Emerald

Note continued: Kelly green -- Scheele's green -- Terre verte -- Avocado -- Celadon -- Khaki -- Buff -- Fallow -- Russet -- Sepia -- Umber -- Mummy -- Taupe -- Kohl -- Payne's grey -- Obsidian -- Ink -- Charcoal -- Jet -- Melanin -- Pitch black.

The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book Kassia St Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilisation. Across fashion and politics, art and war, The Secret Lives of Colour tell the vivid story of our culture.