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Colour

Colour

Travels Through the Paintbox

by Victoria Finlay
Paperback
Publication Date: 08/05/2003

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Part travelogue, part narrative history, COLOUR unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, and reveals how paints came to be invented, discovered, traded and used. This remarkable and beautifully written book remembers a time when red paint was really the colour of blood, when orange was the poison pigment, blue as expensive as gold, and yellow made from the urine of cows force-fed with mangoes. It looks at how green was carried by yaks along the silk road, and how an entire nation was founded on the colour purple.



Exciting, richly informative, and always surprising, COLOUR lifts the lid on the historical palette and unearths an astonishing wealth of stories about the quest for colours, and our efforts to understand them.
ISBN:
9780340733295
9780340733295
Category:
Painting & paintings
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
08-05-2003
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
512
Dimensions (mm):
196x128x34mm
Weight:
0.36kg
Victoria Finlay

Victoria Finlay is the critically acclaimed author of Colour - Travels Through the Paintbox and the former arts editor of the South China Morning Post. She studied social anthropology and has travelled around the world in search of stories about her subjects, from colour to jewels and fabric. As well as writing, she has worked in international development.

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