Colour : travels through the paintbox / Victoria Finlay.
Language: English Publication details: London : Sceptre, [2003].Description: xiv, 494, [8] p. of col. plates : ill. (chiefly col.), facsims., maps ; 20 cmContent type:- $atext$2rdacontent.
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- 9780340733295
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| 701.85 DEL Colour : making and using dyes and pigments / | 701.85 EVA An introduction to color / | 701.85 FIN The brilliant history of color in art / | 701.85 FIN Colour : travels through the paintbox / | 701.85 GAG Colour and culture : practice and meaning from antiquity to abstraction / | 701.85 GAG Colour and meaning : art, science and symbolism / | 701.85 GOE Goethe's colour theory / |
Bibliography: pp.439-450.
The beginning of the rainbow -- The paintbox -- Ochre -- Black and brown -- White -- Red -- Orange -- Yellow -- Green -- Blue -- Indigo -- Violet -- The end of the rainbow.
Part travelogue, part narrative history, this text lifts the lid on the historical palette and unearths a wealth of stories about the quest for colours, and our efforts to understand them.
Originally published: 2002.