Bright Earth
Author(s): Philip Ball
One of the least studied aspects of the history of art is the tools an artist uses - colour, including its manufacture as well as its use, falls into this category. This text charts the practicalities of the subject, from the ancient Egyptians onwards, showing how art and science overlap.
General Information
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- : pengui
- : pengui
- : 0.345
- : 28 November 2002
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Philip Ball
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 701.85
- : 448
- : 24pp colour illustrations, notes, bibliography, index
More About The Product
Philip Ball is the author of "Designing the Molecular World", The Self-Made Tapestry" and "H2O: A Biography of Water".
Philip Ball is a regular contributor to Nature, New Scientist, and various national and international newspapers. His previous books include Designing The Molecular World (which won the Association of American Publishers' Award), The Self-Made Tapestry and H2O: A Biography Of Water.
The eye of the beholder - the scientist in the studio; plucking the rainbow - the physics and chemistry of colour; the forge of Vulcan - colour technology in antiquity; secret recipes - alchemy's artistic legacy; masters of light and shadow - the glory of the Renaissance; old gold - the revival of an austere palette; the prismatic metals - synthetic pigments and the dawn of colour chemistry; the reign of light - Impressionism's bright impact; a passion for purple - dyes and the industrialization of colour; shades of midnight - the problem of blue; time as painter - the ever-changing canvas; capturing colour - how art appears in reproduction; mind over matter - colour as form in modernism; art for art's sake - new materials, new horizons.
