"This passionate and majestic compedium will leave you bathed in the gorgeous optics of light. Across fashion and politics, art and war, the secret lives of color tell the vivid story of our culture. 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. 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. Full of anecdotes and fascinating research, this elegant compendium has all the answers." -NPR, Best Books of 2017 The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes, and hues. A beautiful book to live with, it also subtly transforms one’s understanding of the history of racial progress and inequality in America. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.One of USA Today's "100 Books to Read While Stuck at Home During the Coronavirus Crisis " A dazzling gift, the unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume. This volume handsomely reproduces for the first time a full-color complete set of Du Bois’s charts, graphs, maps, and ingenious spirals. Clair offers brief, beautiful, and fascinating histories of seventy-five different colors. But every color has a long and layered history. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Secret Lives of Color. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. The book, The Secret Lives of Color ISBN# 9780143131144 in Hardcover by Kassia St Clair may be ordered in bulk quantities. Despite the fact that color is everywhere around us (or perhaps because it’s everywhere around us), we often take it for granted. The Secret Lives of Color - Kindle edition by St. Across fashion and politics, art and war, the secret lives of color tell the vivid story of our culture. In this book Kassia St Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study. 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. 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.
The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes, and hues.
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