The secret lives of colour
Kassia St Clair (Author)
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
History
319 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cm
9781473630819, 9781473649460, 1473630819, 1473649463
936144129
Ebook version :
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