The Brilliant History of Color in Art

by Victoria Finlay

Hardcover, 2014

Status

Available

Call number

N7432 .F56

Genres

Publication

Chicago Distribution Center (2014), Edition: 1, 128 pages

Description

"Journey from the Ice Age to the Digital Age with a surprising cast of characters on this worldwide tour of color in art. Students will discover the strange, intriguing, and humorous stories of their favorite colors, the science behind them, and how they forever changed the courses of art and history. Big questions will pique your students' curiosity: Why is the sky blue? Why are there seven colors in the rainbow? What is art, anyway? The Brilliant History of Color in Art is also a treasure trove of world art, from cave paintings to Roman treasures and Chinese dragon scrolls; to works by Titian and Michelangelo, Monet and Kandinsky, Rothko and Hockney; to contemporary sculpture and graffiti art. Many of the book's 166 spectacular images are from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum."--Publisher's description.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member Stewartry

Gorgeous! I love this stuff – the origins of pigments, how they're used in paint and dyes, all the background one might expect and the bits that are rather mind-blowing. I received this as an epub from Netgalley for review – I would love to have it in hardcover, to sit and pore over the –

yes, brilliant pages.

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LibraryThing member Welsh_eileen2

This book, although written for the American market, would make an essential teaching aid in U.K. schools also!
The style of writing is skewed to U.S. children, but the amount of imported films and T.V. programmes that are available over here, that should not be a problem.
It sets out in a very

straightforward way, without talking down to children, how the various colours used by artists both in the past and in modern times came about.
The illustrations used for each colour are well chosen and just might inspire budding artists to persue their future goals!
This digital copy was given to me by the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest, unbiased review.

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LibraryThing member Daumari

Short read- more vignette than how other topics were covered in her previous books, but enhanced by pictures of the different subjects (thanks, Getty!)

LibraryThing member LibroLindsay

This truly is a brilliant book--lovely to look at and full of scads of fascinating, colorful facts. Having only taken one formal Art Appreciation class during my undergrad, I had so much fun learning more about the history of various colors and the progression of art on the whole. Absolutely

recommended for a short and sweet trip into the lively world of color.

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This fulfills the microhistory component of the 2015 Read Harder Challenge.

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