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Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour
Philip Ball
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Description for Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour
paperback. Discusses 'colour in art', its inception, the progress made, and its influences on art. Num Pages: 448 pages, 3 x 8pp colour sections. BIC Classification: ABA; PDX; PDZ; PHJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 136 x 29. Weight in Grams: 348. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from? How have artists found new hues, and how have these influenced their work? Beginning with the ancients - when just a handful of pigments made up the artist's palette - and charting the discoveries and developments that have led to the many splendoured rainbow of modern paints, Bright Earth brings the story of colour spectacularly alive. Packed with anecdotes about lucky accidents and hapless misfortunes in the quests for new colours, it provides an entertaining and fascinating new perspective on the science of art.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
448
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099507130
SKU
KTS0036690
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Philip Ball
Philip Ball writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor for physical sciences at Nature. His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena, and include Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books), The Music Instinct, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, Serving The Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Science Under Hitler and Invisible: The history of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics.
Reviews for Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour
Brilliant...in every sense. Ball's book is the volume that has been missing from my library
Guardian
Brings the mysterious subject of colour wonderfully alive. Quite literally an eye-opener
Economist
A succinct and elegantly structured new survey of Western painting. Ball pitches his learning just right between academic history and a highly readable series of anecdotes and biographical sketches
Daily Mail
Full of fascinating vignettes. Philip Ball writes engagingly on complicated topics
Sunday Telegraph
Scattered with attractive particles, sparkles with redolent names... A solid, well-researched compendium of information
TLS
Guardian
Brings the mysterious subject of colour wonderfully alive. Quite literally an eye-opener
Economist
A succinct and elegantly structured new survey of Western painting. Ball pitches his learning just right between academic history and a highly readable series of anecdotes and biographical sketches
Daily Mail
Full of fascinating vignettes. Philip Ball writes engagingly on complicated topics
Sunday Telegraph
Scattered with attractive particles, sparkles with redolent names... A solid, well-researched compendium of information
TLS