The Secret Lives of Colour: RADIO 4's BOOK OF THE WEEK - Couverture rigide

Clair, Kassia St

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1473630819 ISBN 13 : 9781473630819

Editeur : John Murray, 2016

Synopsis

The unforgettable history of colours and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-coloured volume

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kassia St Clair studied the history of women's dress and the masquerade during the eighteenth century at Bristol and Oxford. She has since written about design and culture for the Economist, House & Garden, TLS, Quartz and New Statesman, and has had a column about colour in Elle Decoration since 2013. Her first book The Secret Lives of Colour was a top-ten bestseller, a Radio 4 Book of the Week and has been translated into over a dozen languages; her second, The Golden Thread, was a Sunday Times Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Somerset Maugham Award. She lives in London.

www.kassiastclair.com

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book Kassia St Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilisation. Across fashion and politics, art and war, The Secret Lives of Colour tell the vivid story of our culture.


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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Murray
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1473630819
• ISBN 13: 9781473630819
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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