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Bright earth

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An edition of Bright earth (2001)

Bright earth

art and the invention of color

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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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University of Chicago Press
Language
English
Pages
382

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Subjects

Color in art, Dyes and dyeing, Colour in art, Art and industry, Coloring matter, Chemistry, History, Color, Colors, Artists' materials, Formulae, Farbenlehre, Färglära (konst)
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Cover of: Bright Earth
Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour
2012, Penguin Random House
in English
Cover of: Bright Earth
Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour
2008, Penguin Random House
in English
Cover of: Bright earth
Bright earth: art and the invention of color
2003, University of Chicago Press
in English
Cover of: Bright Earth
Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color
February 20, 2002, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
Cover of: Bright earth
Bright earth: the invention of colour
2001, Viking
in English
Cover of: Bright earth
Bright earth: the invention of colour
2001, Viking
in English

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-360) and index.
Originally published: Great Britain : Penguin, 2001.

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Dewey Decimal Class
701/.85
Library of Congress
N7432.7 .B35 2003, N7432.7.B35 2003

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Pagination
ix, 382 p. :
Number of pages
382

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OL3564884M
ISBN 10
0226036286
LCCN
2002035981
OCLC/WorldCat
50669206
Library Thing
206920
Goodreads
43121

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