Bright Earth

The Invention of Colour

Philip Ball (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

448 Seiten

2008
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-950713-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.2008
Zusatzinfo	3 x 8pp colour sections
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	344 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Malen / Zeichnen
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-09-950713-7 / 0099507137
ISBN-13	978-0-09-950713-0 / 9780099507130
Zustand	Neuware