The secret lives of colour / Kassia St Clair.
By: St. Clair, Kassia [author].
Material type: BookPublisher: London : John Murray, 2018Copyright date: ©2016Description: 327 pages : colour illustrations ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781473630833 (paperback).Subject(s): Color -- Social aspects | Color in art | Symbolism of colorsDDC classification: 701.85Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 701.85 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00232386 |
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very hard painting the hallway magnolia after this inspiring primer.'
Simon Garfield
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- 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 -- Vantablack.
"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" - publisher's website.