ENGLISH

Colour : Travels Through the Paintbox

By Victoria Finlay

Book information

Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Year
2003
ISBN
9780340733295, 0340733292
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (17151435 bytes)
Edition
New Ed
Pages
512\524
Time added
2021-12-18 17:40:52

Description

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 how an entire nation was founded on the colour purple. Exciting, richly informative, and always surprising, 'Colour' lifts the lid on the historical palette and unearths an astonishing wealth of stories about the quest for colours, and our efforts to understand them.

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