Book the secret lives of color5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Every color has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking."-Simon Garfield, author of Just My Type"- Read more. "A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Across fashion and politics, art and war, the secret lives of color tell the vivid story of our culture. ![]() Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colors and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilization. Every color has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking.'-Simon Garfield, author of Just My Type'- Read more. The Secret Lives of Colour peels back the hidden history of some 75 pigments and reveals their mesmeric relationship to our culture, from the origins of silver being the substance of choice for our tableware to Isaac Newton’s surprisingly arbitrary definition of the spectrum to entertain his own theories. 'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. ![]() 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. Across fashion and politics, art and war, the secret lives of color tell the vivid story of our culture. "The unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes and hues. ![]()
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