Bright Earth
Art and the Invention of Color
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Word Count
96,000 words, Guess
Page Count
384 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7422996M
- ISBN-139780374116798
- ISBN-100374116792
- OCLC Control Number47208550
- Internet Archivebrightearthartin0000ball_f6t6
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- Library of Congress Control Number2001041820
- Goodreads3080602
- LibraryThing206920
Classifications
- LCCN7432.7 .B35 2002
- LCCN7432.7.B35 2002
- LCCN7432.7 .B35 2003
Description
"Bright Earth provides a glimpse into a little-explored avenue in the history of art and science: the creation of pigments and dyes and their influence on painting, as well as on fashion, merchandising, and the textile and chemical industries. For as long as artists have turned their dreams into images, they have relied on technical knowledge to supply their materials. Today almost every shade imaginable is easily available in off-the-shelf tubes; every hue and tincture is manufactured and ready for immediate use by the painter. But up until the eighteenth century, most artists ground and mixed their own pigments, and by necessity had considerable skill as a practical chemists."--Jacket.
First Sentence
I believe that in the future, people will start painting pictures in one single color, and nothing else but color."
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- Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color
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