The World According to Colour
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A beguiling cultural history of colour by the BAFTA nominated
broadcaster and art historian James Fox'This book is a triumph.
James Fox's passionate and illuminating exploration of the
extraordinary relationship we have with colour is itself
extraordinary. It is an intellectual feast as well as a visual one
- a true biography of colour which will delight readers.' Edmund de
Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesThe subject of this book is
humankind's extraordinary relationship with colour.It is composed
of a series of voyages, ranging across the world and throughout
history, which reveal the meanings that have been attached to the
colours we see around us and the ways these have shaped our culture
and imagination. It takes seven primary colours - black, red,
yellow, blue, white, purple and green - and uncovers behind each a
root idea, based on visual resemblances or properties so
rudimentary as to be common to all societies. The book traces these
meanings to show how they changed and multiplied, the role that
they have played in our culture and history, and how understanding
them allows us to see many of the milestones in the history of art
- from Bronze Age gold-work to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein - in a
new way.It proceeds by stories, which cumulatively tell another,
larger one: a history of the world from the black nothing which
preceded existence to the birth of our red-blooded species, the
gilded gods who animated the world in antiquity to the blue
horizons which framed the Age of Discovery, the pristine
aspirations of Enlightenment, the technicolour innovation which
fuelled the Industrial Revolution and the colour which most
embodies the environmental crisis which now faces us.
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Penguin Books Ltd ,
James Fox
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James Fox
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