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Colors of Art The Story of Art in 80 Palettes

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

22.09.2026

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256

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24,5/19/1,6 cm

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748 g

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Englisch

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978-1-80570-149-1

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

22.09.2026

Seitenzahl

256

Maße (L/B/H)

24,5/19/1,6 cm

Gewicht

748 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-80570-149-1

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Libri GmbH
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  • Produktbild: Colors of Art
  • Introduction                                                                                                                                                                       
     
    1. First impressions                                                                                                                                          
    Stone Age, Egypt, Ancient Greece and Rome                                Feature: The nature of colour – how artists created natural colours.    
    Horses, from the Chauvet cave near the Pont d’Arc
    Bison, from Altamira
    Nebamun Hunting Birds, from the tomb of Nebamun
    Tomb of the Diver
      2. Ordering the world                                                                                                                                                        
    The Renaissance    Feature: A roaring trade – on the colour trade and the cost/availability of colours
    Lamentation, Giotto
    Saint Ansanus Altarpiece, Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi
    The Wilton Diptych
    Saints Jerome and John the Baptist, Masaccio
    Portrait of a Man with a Turban, Jan van Eyck
    The Magdalen Reading, Rogier Van der Weyden
    The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli
    The Rape of Europa, Titian
    Philip II, Sofonisba Anguissola
    Portrait of Bianca Degli Utili Maselli surrounded by six of her children, Lavinia Fontana  
    3. Cutting loose                                                                                                                                                                      
    Baroque to Rococo    Feature: The colour wheel – on Isaac Newton’s discovery of the colour spectrum, and his error – trusting maths over the sensations of the eye
    Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Caravaggio
    Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi
    The Toilet of Venus (The Rokeby Venus), Diego Velázquez
    Rising and Setting of the Sun, François Boucher
    Colour, Angelica Kauffman
    Self-Portrait with Straw Hat, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun  
    4. Keeping it real                                                                                                                                                 
    Realism    Feature: Risky business – on poisonous colours and artists risking their lives for their work.
    Still Life with Cheeses, Artichoke and Cherries, Clara Peeters
    A Woman Bathing in a Stream, Rembrandt van Rijn
    The Goldfinch, Carel Fabritius
    The Milkmaid, Johannes Vermeer
    Flowers in a Vase, Rachel Ruysch  
    5. Two sides of a coin                                                                                                                                                         
    Neoclassicism to Romanticism    Feature: How we see colour – on Goethe’s new symmetrical colour wheel and physiological theories.
    Albion Rose, William Blake
    Portrait of a Negress, Marie-Guillemine Benoist
    Orphan Girl at the Cemetery, Eugène Delacroix
    The Burning of the Houses of Parliament , Joseph Mallord William Turner
    Comtesse d’Haussonville, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres  
    6. Let there be light                                                                                                                                                             
    The Impressionist Revolution    Feature: Colour chemistry – on the industrialisation of colour and the making of synthetic pigments.
    Two Women Chatting by the Sea, Camille Pissarro
    Young Woman with Peonies, Frédéric Bazille
    Symphony in Flesh Color and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland, by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
    Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets, Édouard Manet
    In the Country (After Lunch), Berthe Morisot
    Combing the Hair, Edgar Degas
    The Child’s Bath, Mary Cassatt
    Waterloo Bridge, Blurred Sun, Claude Monet  
    7. On the edge of the spectrum                                                                                                                 
    Post-Impressionists, Pre-Raphaelites, Les Nabis, Surrealists    Feature: Colour decorum – on the relativity of colour and its use and reception in different cultural contexts. (An opportunity to touch on non-Western art.)
    Night and Sleep, Evelyn de Morgan
    The Suitor, Édouard Vuillard
    The Visit, Félix Vallotton
    Interior. Strandgade 30, Vilhelm Hammershoi
    Barbarian Tales, Paul Gauguin
    The Life, Pablo Picasso
    The Green Blouse, Pierre Bonnard
    The Two Fridas, Frida Kahlo
    The Old Maids, Leonora Carrington  
    8. Express yourself                                                                                                                                                              
    Expressionism and Fauvism    Feature: The psychology of colour – on colour communicating and sparking emotion.
    Two Crabs, Vincent van Gogh
    The Scream, Edvard Munch
    Self-portrait on Sixth Wedding Anniversary, Paula Modersohn-Becker
    Group X, No.1, Altarpiece, Hilma af Klint
    The Yellow Scale, František Kupka
    The Dessert: Harmony in Red, Henri Matisse
    Seated Woman with Legs Drawn Up (Adele Herms), Egon Schiele
    Still Life with Blackening Apples, by Helene Schjerfbeck  
    9. Seeing it feelingly                                                                                                                                                            
    Abstract Expressionism and Colour Field Painting    Feature: Properties of colour – on hue, intensity and tone, and the changing precedence of each throughout art history
    Electric Prisms, Sonia Delaunay
    Mountains and Sea, Helen Frankenthaler
    Bird Talk, Lee Krasner
    No. 11 (Untitled), Mark Rothko
    Ocean Park #79, Richard Diebenkorn  
    10. Show some restraint                                                                                                                                   
    Monochrome and Minimalism    Feature: The Pantone palette – on attempts to create a universal colour language. Plus Pantone’s predecessors, eg Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1814).
    Homage to the Square: Apparition, Joseph Albers
    The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II, Frank Stella
    IKB 79, Yves Klein
    White Stone, Agnes Martin  
    11. By popular demand                                                                                                                                                       
    Pop Art to The Pictures Generation    Feature: Anything is possible – on new materials and colour experimentation outside of the medium of painting.
    Colour Her Gone, Pauline Boty
    Ice Cream, Evelyne Axell
    Untitled (Your Body is a Battleground), Barbara Kruger
    A Bigger Splash, David Hockney
    Ladies and Gentlemen (Iris), Andy Warhol  
    12. Here and Now                                                                                                                                                  
    Contemporary art from the 1970s    Feature: The colour of art history – on artists painting black figures into the mostly white canon.
    Self-Portrait, Alice Neel
    Self-Portrait, Basquiat
    Untitled, Etel Adnan
    To Tell Them There It’s Got To, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
    Spinners (Moths and Spiders Webs), Kiki Smith
    Slaughter of the Innocents (They Might be Guilty of Something), Kara Walker
    Shantavia Beal II, Kehinde Wiley
    Boucher’s Flesh, Flora Yukhnovich
    The Ruling Class (Eshu), Toyin Ojih Odutola
    Sabine, Alison Watt
    Untitled, Lisa Brice  
    Index                                                                                                                                                                                        
    Further reading                                                                                                                                                                
    Picture credits                                                                                                                                                 
    Acknowledgements