Bright Earth

The Invention of Colour

Author: Philip Ball

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A timely reissue of a brilliant exploration of the science of art and of colour

Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from?

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A timely reissue of a brilliant exploration of the science of art and of colour

Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from?

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A brilliant exploration of the science of art and of colourColour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from? How have artists found new hues, and how have these influenced their work? Beginning with the ancients - when just a handful of pigments made up the artist's palette - and charting the discoveries and developments that have led to the many splendoured rainbow of modern paints, Bright Earth brings the story of colour spectacularly alive. Packed with anecdotes about lucky accidents and hapless misfortunes in the quests for new colours, it provides an entertaining and fascinating new perspective on the science of art.

Critic Reviews

“Brilliant...in every sense. Ball's book is the volume that has been missing from my library”

Guardian
Brings the mysterious subject of colour wonderfully alive. Quite literally an eye-opener Economist
A succinct and elegantly structured new survey of Western painting. Ball pitches his learning just right between academic history and a highly readable series of anecdotes and biographical sketches Daily Mail
Full of fascinating vignettes. Philip Ball writes engagingly on complicated topics Sunday Telegraph
Scattered with attractive particles, sparkles with redolent names... A solid, well-researched compendium of information TLS

About the Author

Philip Ball writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor for physical sciences at Nature. His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena, and include Critical Mass- How One Thing Leads To Another (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books), The Music Instinct, Curiosity- How Science Became Interested in Everything, Serving The Reich- The Struggle for the Soul of Science Under Hitler and Invisible- The history of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics.

Product Details

Publisher

Vintage Publishing | Vintage

Published

1st May 2008

Pages

448

ISBN

9780099507130

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02 Oct, 2021

This book is fabulous! The scientific explanations of how colour has been created including historical underpinnings makes this book a perfect reference book. It's deeply informing and easy to read...it leaves one considering how little one knew about colour, that is until I read this book!
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