Description
| Product ID: | 9780141976655 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The World According to Colour |
| Subtitle: | A Cultural History |
| Authors: | Author: James Fox |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Theory of art, Theory of art, History of art, General and world history, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, History of art / art & design styles, History: earliest times to present day, Social & cultural history, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 'Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one'Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesThe world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book reveals. Each chapter immerses the reader in a single colour, drawing together stories from the histories of art and humanity to illuminate the meanings it has been given over the eras and around the globe. Showing how artists, scientists, writers, philosophers, explorers and inventors have both shaped and been shaped by these wonderfully myriad meanings, James Fox reveals how, through colour, we can better understand their cultures, as well as our own. Each colour offers a fresh perspective on a different epoch, and together they form a vivid, exhilarating history of the world. 'We have projected our hopes, anxieties and obsessions onto colour for thousands of years,' Fox writes. 'The history of colour, therefore, is also a history of humanity.' ''Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one'' |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-04-06 |
