Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour

Philip Ball

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The eye of the beholder - the scientist in the studio plucking the rainbow - the physics and chemistry of colour the forge of Vulcan - colour technology in antiquity secret recipes - alchemy's artistic legacy masters of light and shadow - the glory of the Renaissance old gold - the revival of an austere palette the prismatic metals - synthetic pigments and the dawn of colour chemistry the reign of light - Impressionism's bright impact a passion for purple - dyes and the industrialization of colour shades of midnight - the problem of blue time as painter - the ever-changing canvas capturing colour - how art appears in reproduction mind over matter - colour as form in modernism art for art's sake - new materials, new horizons.

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