James Fox
The World According to Colour: A Cultural History
The World According to Colour: A Cultural History
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The author of "The Hare with Amber Eyes" explores the relationship between color and imagination, art, science, and culture, and how it has been shaped by artists, scientists, writers, philosophers, explorers, and inventors throughout history. The book offers a fresh perspective on different eras and a vivid history of the world.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 06 April 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Extraordinary. A true intellectual feast as well as a visual one, Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes, reminds us that the world comes to us in colour. However, 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 single colour, drawing together stories from the histories of art and humanity to illuminate the meanings it has been given over the eras and around the globe. Showing how artists, scientists, writers, philosophers, explorers, and inventors have both shaped and been shaped by these wonderfully myriad meanings, James Fox reveals how, through colour, we can better understand their cultures, as well as our own. Each colour offers a fresh perspective on a different epoch, and together they form a vivid, exhilarating history of the world.
We have projected our hopes, anxieties, and obsessions onto colour for thousands of years, Fox writes. Therefore, the history of colour is also a history of humanity.
Weight: 284g
Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780141976655
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