Bright earth : the invention of colour
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Bright earth : the invention of colour
(Penguin non-fiction)(Penguin books)
Penguin Books, 2002
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Note
Originally published: [London]: Viking, 2001
Includes bibliographical references (p. [408]-416) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
One of the least studied aspects of the history of art is the tools that the artist uses - and in particular the story of the colour itself and how artists have obtained their colours down the centuries. The focus has been on inspiration rather than the practicalities of how (and if) an artist could achieve a particular colour. This text seeks to redress the balance. Ranging from the Ancient Greeks to the present day, it reveals how art is more of a science and science more of an art then might be supposed.
Table of Contents
- The eye of the beholder - the scientist in the studio
- plucking the rainbow - the physics and chemistry of colour
- the forge of Vulcan - colour technology in antiquity
- secret recipes - alchemy's artistic legacy
- masters of light and shadow - the glory of the Renaissance
- old gold - the revival of an austere palette
- the prismatic metals - synthetic pigments and the dawn of colour chemistry
- the reign of light - Impressionism's bright impact
- a passion for purple - dyes and the industrialization of colour
- shades of midnight - the problem of blue
- time as painter - the ever-changing canvas
- capturing colour - how art appears in reproduction
- mind over matter - colour as form in modernism
- art for art's sake - new materials, new horizons.
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