- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; New edition edition (9 April 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0810928728
- ISBN-13: 978-0810928725
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 12.4 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,377,397 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This volume, from the "Discoveries" series, examines colour, from the painted caves at Lascaux (dating back some 40,000 years) to the computerized chemistry of today. It traces the lengthy history of dyes and pigments.
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A gem of a book!,
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This review is from: Colors: The Story of Dyes and Pigments (Discoveries) (Paperback)
A pocketsize little gem! Read this from cover to cover within hours - an amazing array of facts on the history of pigments and dyes, infused with illustrations and extracts to delight. I suspect this little book will this summer be responsible for increasing the size of my carbon footprint as I retrace the steps of the writers to discover for myself the paintings and artefacts in Sevre and other museums in France and the UK.
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4.4 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews) 58 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
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A treasure chest of interesting trivia,
By Philipp Kessler - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Colors: The Story of Dyes and Pigments (Discoveries) (Paperback)
I am a Color Manager for one of the worlds largest paint companies and even though I have been working with pigments for 15 years I have found this book to be a treasure chest of interesting trivia that I didn't know or had long forgotten.But this book is not just for chemists. If you are like me interested in art, especially paintings, you will find that this book gives you a wealth of information and facts that one can use to better understand the development of art through the centuries. I can highly recommend this beautifully illustrated booklet which is fun to read to everybody (not just color nerds like me). 25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
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A LOT of information packed into a deceptively small package.,
By C. Good - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Colors: The Story of Dyes and Pigments (Discoveries) (Paperback)
_Colors: The Story of Dyes and Pigments_, is an excellent little book to read if you are interested in colors. It covers pre-history up through the modern era, and it discusses some of the chemistry, much of the mineralogy, and a lot of the economics & politics that went into the use of different dyes & pigments through the eons.
It is also lavishly illustrated, with many many photos, including photos of famous works of art, close-up photos showing artistic techniques, photos of artists' materials, and photos of historical treatises relating to cloth dyeing and other skills. There is a lot of good technical content, including explanations of the differences between dyes, pigments and lakes, and details of attempts in antiquity to create artificial colors, going as far back as the Egyptians. The chapters are Painting & Dyeing, which covers paints and dyes from antiquity to the Middle Ages; Colors in the Middle Ages, which covers new technological & economic developments in the Middle Ages; The Explosion of Supply and Demand, which covers how the increased trade of the Renaissance, Enlightenment Era, and the Industrial Age drove the search for new colors; and The Triumph of Industrial Chemistry, which describes how colors are made today. There is also a chapter titled Documents, which has excerpts from a number of historical works about dyes & pigments, and that chapter alone is worth the price of the book. The bibliography is also excellent. It was a bit slow in places, and since it was originally written in French, there is a certain flow to the text that is subtly different from many contemporary books written by native English speakes. But, the differences are not unpleasant, and for the most part the text is very engaging. I did notice that it repeats the statement that India Yellow was made from the concentrated urine of cows who at only mangoes, and according to Victoria Finlay in _Color: A Natural History of the Palette_, that provenance is mythical. But that was the only jarring note I found in the entire work. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fun read and informative,
By Beth Billstrom "Beth" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Colors: The Story of Dyes and Pigments (Discoveries) (Paperback)
This is a great little book. I enjoyed my first read of it and will probably read it again. The small size and beautiful colors make it a great book to bring along with you on a plane ride or some other excursion where you need something to read.
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