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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO COLOUR - JAMES FOX GEBUNDEN

A beguiling cultural history of colour by the BAFTA nominated broadcaster and art historian
James Fox 'This book is a triumph. James Fox's passionate and illuminating exploration of the
extraordinary relationship we have with colour is itself extraordinary. It is an intellectual
feast as well as a visual one - a true biography of colour which will delight readers.' Edmund
de Waal  author of The Hare with Amber Eyes The subject of this book is humankind's
extraordinary relationship with colour. It is composed of a series of voyages  ranging across
the world and throughout history  which reveal the meanings that have been attached to the
colours we see around us and the ways these have shaped our culture and imagination. It takes
seven primary colours - black  red  yellow  blue  white  purple and green - and uncovers behind
each a root idea  based on visual resemblances or properties so rudimentary as to be common to
all societies. The book traces these meanings to show how they changed and multiplied  the role
that they have played in our culture and history  and how understanding them allows us to see
many of the milestones in the history of art - from Bronze Age gold-work to Turner  Titian to
Yves Klein - in a new way. It proceeds by stories  which cumulatively tell another  larger one:
a history of the world from the black nothing which preceded existence to the birth of our
red-blooded species  the gilded gods who animated the world in antiquity to the blue horizons
which framed the Age of Discovery  the pristine aspirations of Enlightenment  the technicolour
innovation which fuelled the Industrial Revolution and the colour which most embodies the
environmental crisis which now faces us.

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