Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour - Softcover

Ball, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099507137 ISBN 13: 9780099507130

Publisher: Vintage, 2008

Synopsis

Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from? How have artists found new hues, and how have these influenced their work? Beginning with the ancients - when just a handful of pigments made up the artist's palette - and charting the discoveries and developments that have led to the many splendoured rainbow of modern paints, Bright Earth brings the story of colour spectacularly alive. Packed with anecdotes about lucky accidents and hapless misfortunes in the quests for new colours, it provides an entertaining and fascinating new perspective on the science of art.

About this title

About the Author

Philip Ball writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor for physical sciences at Nature. His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena, and include Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books), The Music Instinct, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, Serving The Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Science Under Hitler and Invisible: The History of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099507137
• ISBN 13: 9780099507130
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448