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The brilliant history of color in art / Victoria Finlay.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Los Angeles, California : The J. Paul Getty Museum, [2014]Description: 120 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781606064290
  • 1606064290
Subject(s):
Contents:
Manganese black: Art in the Ice Age -- Red ocher: The sacred and dangerous in Australia -- Egyptian blue: King Tut's infrared transmitter -- Greek white: The myth of the white city -- Yellow ocher: Apelles and slime -- Tyrian purple: Cleopatra's royal color -- Cinnabar, vermilion, and minium: Beautiful but deadly -- Black ink: Who needs color anyway? -- Gold: Medieval radiance -- Green earth: Unearthly undertones -- The age of canvas: Painting on sails -- Ultramarine: From the Valley of the Stone -- Cochineal: A new world color in art (and your lunch) -- Logwood black: Puritans and pirates -- Cobalt: Blue at the scene of the crime -- Lead white: The enchantress -- Indigo: Girl power in South Carolina -- Gainsborough blue: Never use blue in the center -- Rose: Madame Pompadour's luxurious pink -- Light: And the Age of Enlightenment -- Titian blue: Simply unbelievable -- Indian yellow: Turner, cows, and mangoes -- Madder red: Inventing the color wheel -- Graphite: Pencil lead is not lead -- Mummy brown: Funeral for pharaohs -- Mauve: Chemistry project gone wrong -- Prussian blue: The blue that was supposed to be red -- Emerald green: The mystery of the poisonous wallpaper -- Black and white and sepia: What you can't see in photographs -- Manganese violet: Monet goes outside -- Chrome yellow: Color from Siberia -- Patent blue, tartrazine, and rose Bengal: Mix with potatoes for delicious color -- Cadmium yellow: Listening to colors with Kandinsky -- Lithol red: Endless journey of the eye -- International Klein blue: This is not your blue -- Orange 36 and violet 19: Lichtenstein and the rise of the superheroes -- Painting with light: Pixels as pigment.
Summary: The history of art is inseparable from the history of colour. And what a story they tell together: one that brims with an all-star cast of characters, eye-opening details, and unexpected detours through the annals of human civilization and scientific discovery. This book takes readers across the globe and over the centuries on an unforgettable tour through the brilliant history of colour in art.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Blue 701.85 FIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 04701

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Manganese black: Art in the Ice Age -- Red ocher: The sacred and dangerous in Australia -- Egyptian blue: King Tut's infrared transmitter -- Greek white: The myth of the white city -- Yellow ocher: Apelles and slime -- Tyrian purple: Cleopatra's royal color -- Cinnabar, vermilion, and minium: Beautiful but deadly -- Black ink: Who needs color anyway? -- Gold: Medieval radiance -- Green earth: Unearthly undertones -- The age of canvas: Painting on sails -- Ultramarine: From the Valley of the Stone -- Cochineal: A new world color in art (and your lunch) -- Logwood black: Puritans and pirates -- Cobalt: Blue at the scene of the crime -- Lead white: The enchantress -- Indigo: Girl power in South Carolina -- Gainsborough blue: Never use blue in the center -- Rose: Madame Pompadour's luxurious pink -- Light: And the Age of Enlightenment -- Titian blue: Simply unbelievable -- Indian yellow: Turner, cows, and mangoes -- Madder red: Inventing the color wheel -- Graphite: Pencil lead is not lead -- Mummy brown: Funeral for pharaohs -- Mauve: Chemistry project gone wrong -- Prussian blue: The blue that was supposed to be red -- Emerald green: The mystery of the poisonous wallpaper -- Black and white and sepia: What you can't see in photographs -- Manganese violet: Monet goes outside -- Chrome yellow: Color from Siberia -- Patent blue, tartrazine, and rose Bengal: Mix with potatoes for delicious color -- Cadmium yellow: Listening to colors with Kandinsky -- Lithol red: Endless journey of the eye -- International Klein blue: This is not your blue -- Orange 36 and violet 19: Lichtenstein and the rise of the superheroes -- Painting with light: Pixels as pigment.

The history of art is inseparable from the history of colour. And what a story they tell together: one that brims with an all-star cast of characters, eye-opening details, and unexpected detours through the annals of human civilization and scientific discovery. This book takes readers across the globe and over the centuries on an unforgettable tour through the brilliant history of colour in art.