Victoria Finlay

Colour

Travels through the Paintbox

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Hinter jedem Farbton verbergen sich ungeahnte Geschichten und erstaunliche Fakten, die hier mit viel Liebe zum Detail erzählt werden. Ein Buch für alle, die mit offenen Augen durch die Welt gehen.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: PETERSEN, HAMBURG
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 904971
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780340733295
• ISBN-10: 0340733292
• Artikelnr.: 11727982

Autorenporträt

Victoria Finlay worked as a journalist in Hong Kong for eleven years, five of which were spent as arts editor for the South China Morning Post. Colour was her first book; since then she has also written Jewels: A Secret History, A Brilliant History of Color in Art, and Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World. She studied social anthropology and as well as travelling around the world in search of stories about her subjects, from pigments to jewels to art to fabric, has also worked for an international environment charity. She lives near Bath.

Rezensionen

[Victoria Finlay's] curiosity is inexhaustible, her reading wide, and her writing style a delight Sunday Telegraph