Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour

Philip Ball

ISBN 10: 0099507137 / ISBN 13: 9780099507130

Verlag: Vintage Books USA, 2008

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers U9780099507130

Inhaltsangabe:

Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from? How have artists found new hues, and how have these influenced their work? Beginning with the ancients - when just a handful of pigments made up the artist's palette - and charting the discoveries and developments that have led to the many splendoured rainbow of modern paints, Bright Earth brings the story of colour spectacularly alive. Packed with anecdotes about lucky accidents and hapless misfortunes in the quests for new colours, it provides an entertaining and fascinating new perspective on the science of art.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Philip Ball writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor for physical sciences at Nature. His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena, and include Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books), The Music Instinct, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, Serving The Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Science Under Hitler and Invisible: The History of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour
Verlag: Vintage Books USA
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 46951844
Signiert: 8/5/2026 8:48:58 AM
Auflage: 1785919738.