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Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic colour; or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? Throughout history, artist pigments have been made from deadly metals, poisonous minerals, urine, cow dung, and even crushed insects.
From grinding down beetles and burning animal bones to alchemy and pure luck, Chromatopia reveals the origin stories behind over fifty of history’s most vivid colour pigments. Spanning the ancient world to modern leaps in technology, this is the book for the artist, the history buff, the science lover and the design fanatic.
Table of Contents
Introduction: A Life Lived in Colour · 1. The First Colours · 2. Colour in the Time of the Ancients · 3. Colour and the Classical World · 4. Medieval Colours · 5. Writing Inks 6. Dyes, Lakes and Pinkes · 7. Mysterious Colours · 8. The Explosion of Colour · 9. A Brave New World of Colour · 10. The Science of Modern Colour
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- VerlagThames & Hudson Australia
- Erscheinungsdatum2019
- ISBN 10 0500501351
- ISBN 13 9780500501351
- EinbandTapa dura
- Anzahl der Seiten240
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