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

'Extraordinary. A n 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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