EAN: 9780141976655

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO COLOUR - JAMES FOX KARTO...

Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one'Edmund de Waal  author of The Hare
with Amber Eyes The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations
as it does in our surroundings  as this scintillating book reveals. Each chapter immerses the
reader in a single colour  drawing together stories from the histories of art and humanity to
illuminate the meanings it has been given over the eras and around the globe. Showing how
artists  scientists  writers  philosophers  explorers and inventors have both shaped and been
shaped by these wonderfully myriad meanings  James Fox reveals how  through colour  we can
better understand their cultures  as well as our own. Each colour offers a fresh perspective on
a different epoch  and together they form a vivid  exhilarating history of the world. 'We have
projected our hopes  anxieties and obsessions onto colour for thousands of years ' Fox writes.
'The history of colour  therefore  is also a history of humanity.

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