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Colour in the making : from old wisdom to new brilliance / Philip Ball, Mark Clarke, Carinna Parraman ; edited by Phoebe Stubbs [and three others].

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: London : Black Dog, [2013]Copyright date: ♭2013Description: 239 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), 1 map (colour) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781907317958
Subject(s):
Contents:
Colour in the making: introduction -- Early colour-making: from cave painting to the renaissance -- Post-Newtonian colour: colour perception -- Nineteenth century colour: chemistry and the new rainbow -- Colour reproductions: colour photography and film -- Twenty-first century colour: printed colour -- Appendix.
Summary: A visual history of art and design told through the materials of colour, from the discovery and use of early earth pigments through lakes to organic chemistry and into contemporary dyes, inks, printing techniques and manufacture.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Book Book CGLAS Library Blue 701.85 BAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 04105

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Colour in the making: introduction -- Early colour-making: from cave painting to the renaissance -- Post-Newtonian colour: colour perception -- Nineteenth century colour: chemistry and the new rainbow -- Colour reproductions: colour photography and film -- Twenty-first century colour: printed colour -- Appendix.

A visual history of art and design told through the materials of colour, from the discovery and use of early earth pigments through lakes to organic chemistry and into contemporary dyes, inks, printing techniques and manufacture.