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: 6,684
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Full description for Colour
Part travelogue, part narrative history, '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 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. 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.
