Bright earth
the invention of colour
by Philip Ball and Philip Ball
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"Bright Earth provides a glimpse into a little-explored avenue in the history of art and science: the creation of pigments and dyes and their influence on painting, as well as on fashion, merchandising, and the textile and chemical industries. For as long as artists have turned their dreams into images, they have relied on technical knowledge to supply their materials. Today almost every shade imaginable is easily available in off-the-shelf tubes; every hue and tincture is manufactured and ready for immediate use by the painter. But up until the eighteenth century, most artists ground and mixed their own pigments, and by necessity had considerable skill as a practical chemists."--Jacket.
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Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour
2012, Penguin Random House
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Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour
2008, Penguin Random House
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Bright earth: art and the invention of color
2003, University of Chicago Press
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Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color
February 20, 2002, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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