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Key Information
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Philip Ball |
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Art · Science · Technology |
| Awards: |
2002 National Book Critics Circle Award |
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Bloomsbury Review: "After providing firm grounding in purpose and physics, Ball sets of on an exhaustive and often exhausting expedition through art history, including a few detours into anthropology....Philip Ball's writing calls to mind the works of other passionate science writers--John McPhee and David Quammen, for example. But while his prose is lively, imaginative, even lyrical, it can't hide his efforts to impress us with just how darn much he's learned about color. His knowledge is encyclopedic, and the sheer volume of detail he traces is sometimes mind-numbing." |
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Book Editions
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Format: Paperback, 382
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr (April 01, 2003)
Measurements: 8.75"(h) x 6"(w) x 1.25"(d), 1.4 lbs.
ISBN: 9780226036281 |
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A British science writer considers the question of color and how it has been used in art from the earliest times to the 21st century--specifically, how the particular color sources available to artists at any given time in history have affected the way they paint. He explores such questions as why the color orange was used so sparsely in Renaissance art, how Turner's color effects were dependent on newly available (and highly experimental) pigments, and why Degas's works have weathered the years so well. |
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