Cultural History of Color
Cultural History of Color A Cultural History of Color presents a history of 5000 years of color in western culture. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or…
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Cultural History of Color
A Cultural History of Color presents a history of 5000 years of color in western culture. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The first systematic and comprehensive history, the work examines how color has been perceived, developed, produced and traded, and how it has been used in all aspects of performance - from the political to the religious to the artistic - and how it shapes all we see, from food and nature to interiors and architecture, to objects and art, to fashion and adornment, to the color of the naked human body, and to the way our minds work and our languages are created.Chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes.
The themes (and chapter titles) are: Color Philosophy and Science; Color Technology and Trade; Power and
Cultural History of Color
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