The Secret Lives of Color

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Call Number: 155.9 St, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Art / History / St. Clair, Kassia
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	155.9 St	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Art / History / St. Clair, Kassia	4-week checkout	Due 05-16-2024

"The unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book, Kassia St. Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colors and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilization. Across fashion and politics, art and war, the secret lives of color tell the vivid story of our culture. "A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every color has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking."--Simon Garfield, author of Just My Type"-- Provided by publisher.

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Fascinating submitted by Cloverdale on July 28, 2019, 6:27pm What a wonderful book that includes chemistry, culture, history, and art. Each color is described in a 2-3 page essay covering its history and composition.

Lives submitted by smr on July 8, 2020, 11:22am Lives of color