The art of colour

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Finalist for the Marfield Prize, the National Award for Arts Writing: a unique approach to the history of art told through the story of colour and pigments.

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Did you know that the ultramarine that shimmers at the centre of Vermeer’s Milkmaid connects that masterpiece with 6th-century Zoroastrian paintings found on the walls of cave temples in Bamiyan, Afghanistan? Or that the surging waves that crest and curl in Hokusai’s perilous Great Wave off Kanagawa owe their absorbing blue lustre to an alchemist who was born in Frankenstein’s Castle in 1673? And were the Pre-Raphaelites really obsessed with a murky brown hue derived from the pulverized remains of ancient mummies? (Spoiler: they were.)

Invented by prehistoric cave-dwellers and medieval conjurers, cunning conmen and savvy scientists, the colours of art tell a riveting tale all their own. Over ten scintillating chapters, acclaimed author Kelly Grovier helps bring that tale vividly to life, revealing the astonishing backstories of the pigments that define the greatest works in the history of art. Interwoven between these chapters is a series of features focusing on key moments in the evolution of colour theory – from the revelations of the Enlightenment to the radicalism of the Bauhaus – while reproductions of carefully selected artworks help illuminate the narrative’s twists and turns.

The history of colour is an epic saga of human ingenuity and insatiable desire. Read this book and you will never look at a work of art in quite the same way.

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The Art of Colour

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The World According to Colour

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extraordinary an intellectual feast as well as a visual one edmund de waal author of the hare with amber eyesthe world comes to us in colour but colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings as this scintillating book reveals each chapter immerses the reader in a sing Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Het geheime leven van kleuren

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 27 april 2023

Aantal pagina's: 256

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Kelly Grovier

Hoofduitgeverij: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Editie: 1

Product breedte: 170 mm

Product hoogte: 28 mm

Product lengte: 246 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 182 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 30 mm

Verpakking lengte: 257 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 864 g

EAN: 9780500024812

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