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The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair
Across fashion and politics, art and war, the secret lives of color tell the vivid story of our culture. “A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every color has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking.” —Simon Garfield, author of Just My Type. Download The Secret Lives of Color and read The Secret Lives of Color online books in format PDF. Get also Books,Arts & Photography,Graphic Design books in EPUB and Mobi Format. Check out other translated books in French, Spanish languages. THE SECRET LIVES OF COLOUR Download The Secret Lives Of Colour ebook PDF or Read Online books in PDF, EPUB, and Mobi Format. Click Download or Read Online button to THE SECRET LIVES OF COLOUR book pdf for free now.
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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes and hues.
From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women the secret lives of colour pdf free download imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history.
In this book, Kassia St. Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colours and where they come from whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink into a unique study of human civilization. Across fashion and politics, art and war, the secret lives of colour tell the vivid story of our culture.
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I'm assuming the colors in the book are lost on a colorless Kindle? Gregory Weisler While the edges of the pages roughly match the color being discussed, they are not essential to the content.
I have a hard copy of the book, so I can …more While the edges of the pages roughly match the color being discussed, they are not essential to the content.
I have a hard copy of the book, so I can tell you it doesn't make that much difference. The real interest is in the stories and history associated with the colors the author has chosen to include. Also, given the vagueries of print, most of the colored edges of the pages are not true to the actual color - or at least not as accurate as the pigments themselves in either acrylic or oil palettes.
See 2 questions about The Secret Lives of Color…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Secret Lives of Color. Aug 01, Will Byrnes rated it it was amazing Shelves: nonfictionsciencebrain-candyhistoryart, the secret lives of colour pdf free download. Image from Videokarma. Many creatures have dichromatic vision, two kinds of cone receptorswhich allows limited color perception.
Monochromatics see only the gray scale from black to white, the secret lives of colour pdf free download. Skates, rays. Color has played a major role in the development of homo sapiens, giving us more tools for making the best survival decisions. A computer displays under 17 million colors, of which we can see maybe 10 million, but a conservative estimate of how many colors there actually are puts it at 18 decillion. Yeah, you want to know. The top number is probably infinity, but it feels nice to have an actual number, however extreme, however arbitrary, to define the edges of what there is of anything in the universe.
Thankfully, Kassia St Clair trimmed a few off the top, bottom, and middle, settling in at seventy-five. Any of us could name many more, but the odds are we would not be able to expound on each the way Ms. St Clair can. What I have tried to do is provide something between a potted history [which would be more relevant to a compendium of plant colors] and a character sketch for the 75 shades [maybe Dante could help] that have intrigued me the most.
Kassia St Clair - From Psychology Today — photo credit — Colin Thomas However minimal seventy-five may sound when compared to the theoretical number of available colors, St Clair has managed to put together a very broad spectrum, including basic colors Roy G. Biv never heard of, like white, black, and brown. After an introductory section on the science and history of color and seeing, the book is divided into ten parts, white, yellow, orange, pink, red, purple, blue, green, brown and black, with short offerings on between five and ten different colors within each.
This makes ideal bedtime reading, as the pieces on any color are never more than two or three pages, a natural length given that the project originated with a column on color so you can read as much or as little as you like without any concern about missing something, or delaying your shut-eye with stress over what might happen to a beloved character.
The content of the individual chapters varies. Many report on the materials from which coloring agents are made, animal, vegetable, mineral, and weird concoctions. Some focus instead on social significance, and in one case, military impact.
It is the range of perspectives that offers the greatest joy here. It is one thing, and not a bad one, the secret lives of colour pdf free download, to learn where this or that color actually comes from in nature, tossing in some historical or character references, and that could have been pretty much the sum total of the book. But no paint-by-numbers writing here. Nonetheless, The Secret Lives of Colorwhich is a wonderful world offers a cornucopia of fascinating bits of information, which makes this a very high fructose collection of brain candy, the secret lives of colour pdf free download.
The white cases of Apple computers are actually a shade of gray. Silver was used for flatware in the belief that it could detect poisons. The derivation of orange; which came first, the color or the fruit?
A long-forgotten name for New York City. A bit of science on how fluorescents work. Some words that we think of as colors began as something else. A reason why the blue light from televisions affects us in certain ways. And on and on and on, delightfully. There are words in here that were quite unfamiliar in this context. Isabelline is a color? Minium must be a small colorMadder an angry one?
Woad is a color? Well, if you say so. Best of all is Mummy. Suffice it to say that this was the most disturbing chapter of the book, one that kept coming back into my thoughts unbidden. Ironically, the pigment was a shade of brown that did not preserve itself all that well.
Is it Baker-Miller pink, Mountbatten pink, puce, fuchsia, shocking, fluorescent, or maybe amaranth? Or if you are feeling blue, which shade?
Indigo, Prussian, Egyptian, woad, electric, or maybe cerulean? And when you are in a black mood, well, you get the idea. For the truly bleak there is Vantablack, a carbon nanotube the secret lives of colour pdf free download created in Britain intraps In person it is so dark it fools the eyes and brain, rendering people unable to perceive depth and texture.
For any who enjoy learning new things, this book is the definition of a fun read, offering fascinating information in bite-sized, tasty the secret lives of colour pdf free download of multi-colored brain candy for your synaptical munching pleasure.
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However de gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum, in my experience colours, like the weather, can make an convenient topic to spark or rekindle conversation, having saved me a few times in socially awkward situations - as wherever we are, colour is everywhere. More than a history of colours, this is a compendium of stories, anecdotes and trivia on the 75 hues, tints, tones and shades that St Clair selected, ranging from lead white to pitch black, culled from excursions into history, religion, economics, sociology the use of Baker-Miller pink to assuage aggressiveness of prisonershistory of art, religion, politics Mountbatten pink, Dutch orangebiology, the secret lives of colour pdf free download, chemistry, literature Celadon.
She delivers clarifications on the etymology of the names of colours and jots in interesting colour-related linguistic musings. Cheveley, makes her entrance in heliotrope and diamonds, before swashbuckling her way through the remainder of the play and commandeering all the best lines. Allusions to heliotrope also crop up in the works of J. Rowling, D. Lawrence, P. Wodehouse, James Joyce and Joseph Conrad. The word is pleasure to say, filling the mouth like a rich, buttery sauce. Added to which, the the secret lives of colour pdf free download itself is intriguing: antiquated, unusual and just a little bit brassy.
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