Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Colour On a journey that takes her from Afghanistan, to the Australian outback, to ancient caves in China, and the saffron harvest in Spain, Victoria Finlay gives an extraordinary and compelling account of the history of colour.
Full description- Publisher: Sceptre
- Published: 26 May 2003
- Format: Paperback 512 pages
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- Categories: General | Paintings | History: Specific Events & Topics | Travel Writing
- ISBN 13: 9780340733295 ISBN 10: 0340733292
- Sales rank: 7,030
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Reviews for Colour
Entertaining read for dilettantes
This is a great read for people who like generalist history merged with travelogue - dilettantes like myself. It's got some fascinating stories in it about the origin of paints and their colours and skips back and forth between famous painters and sea slugs, beetles and Australia. It's not an in-depth history of a subject but an entertaining overview illustrated with interesting items from the past. by Melissa

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