The Secret Lives of Colour
- Author Kassia St Clair
- Narrator Kassia St Clair
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Run Time 8 hours and 8 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Dyestuffs, pigments and paint technology, Fashion and textile design, History, Social and cultural history, The Arts.
Titles Purchased
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Price p/Title
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What to expect
www.johnmurray.co.uk
@kassiastclair #Colour
Critics Review
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If you want to fall back in love with colour, read The Secret Lives of Colour
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH -
A dazzling and vibrant history of colour, from Van Gogh’s wilting yellow sunflowers to Turner’s deadly green and Picasso’s darkest period
MAIL ON SUNDAY -
This is a gorgeous book
GUARDIAN -
Even Farrow and Ball don’t know as much about the secret lore of colour as Kassia St Clair... Almost every page throws up an unexpected detail and insight... Extraordinarily full and interesting…An ideal crib and a valuable resource not only for the design-conscious but for students.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT -
The weirdly fascinating history of your favourite hues from an unwittingly deadly, arsenic-tinged green to Van Gogh’s favoured yellow
WIRED -
‘An excellent, innovative and idiosyncratic cultural history that will colour your thinking…St Clair writes with style, energy and knowledge, explaining many mysteries succinctly and wittily, such as why a regular tomato is, for example, not red. Tomatoes appear red because that’s the very wavelength their skin does not absorb. A ‘red’ tomato lies to tell the truth.. Snappily designed, with high production values…[The Secret Lives of Colour is] attractive and diverting.’
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