New Haven, CT, Estados Unidos : Yale University Press, 2023.

255 p. : il. color ; 26 cm.

Red: red ochre. - Carmine. - Rose madder. - Vermilion. Red lead. -- Colourful minds. - Isaac Newton’s. -- Orange: Orpiment. - Saffron. - Chrome orange. - Cadmium orange. -- Colourful minds. - Tobias Mayer’s the affinity of colour. -- Yellow: yellow ochre. - Lead-tin yellow. - Naples yellow. - Indian yellow. - Chrome yellow. - Cadmium yellow. - Arylide yellow. -- Colourful minds. - Mary Gartside’s. essay on light and shade, on colours, and on composition in general. -- Green: verdigris. Malachite. - Emerald green. - Viridian. - Colourful minds. Goethe’s theory of colours. -- Blue: Azurite. - Ultramarine. - Cobalt blue. Cerulean. - Prussian blue. - Artificial ultramarine. International Klein blue. -- Purple: Tyrian purple. - Mauve. - Cobalt violet. -- Colourful minds. Michel Eugène Chevreul’s the principles of harmony and contrast of colours. -- Black: Charcoal. Bone black. -- White: Lead white. Calcite. Kaolin. -- Colourful minds. Albert Henry Munsell’s atlas of the Munsell color system. -- Brown: Umber. - Van dyke Brown. Mumia. Excrement. -- Colourful minds. - Johannes Itten’s Utopia. -- Precious Metals: Gold. Silver. -- Notes. -- Bibliography. -- List of illustrations. -- Index. -- Acknowledgments. --

Tomado de la solapa: "How might it change our understanding of a well-known masterpiece such as Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night to know that its bright yellow moon owes its brilliance to a small herd of cows that were fed nothing but mango leaves? Or that an obscure alchemist born in Frankenstein's Castle is to thank for the rich luster of the surging blue waters in Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa? Or that the Pre-Raphaelites were obsessed with a murky brown pigment derived from the pulverized remains of ancient mummies? In this refreshing approach to the history of colour, Kelly Grovier takes readers on an exciting search for the intriguing and unusual. In Grovier's telling, a colour's connotations are never fixed but are endlessly evolving. Knowledge of a pigment and its history can unlock meaning in the works that feature it. Grovier employs the term 'artymology' to suggest that colour is a linguistic device, where pigments stand in for syllables in art's language. Colour is the site of invigorating conflict-a battleground where past and present, influence and originality, and superstition and science merge into meanings that complicate and intensify our appreciation of a given work. Consisting of ten chapters, each presenting a biography of a family of colours, this volume mines a rich vein of pigmentation from prehistoric cave painting to art of the present day. Interwoven between the chapters are a series of beautifully designed features exploring important milestones in the history of colour theory from the revelations of the Enlightenment to the radical interventions of the Bauhaus."

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