Victoria Finlay

Colour (eBook, ePUB)

Travels Through the Paintbox

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'A rare and wonderful book... I could not be more enthusiastic.' Simon Winchester

'A treasure trove of human history and obsession...the breadth of research and insight is dazzling.' Glasgow Herald

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, part travelogue part narrative history, 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.

'A highly companionable guide, adventurous and romantic' Independent on Sunday

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444719888
• Artikelnr.: 41838179

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