Bright Earth
Art and the Invention of Color
Ball, Philip
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BOOK SUMMARY
From Egyptian wall paintings to the Venetian Renaissance, impressionism to digital images, Philip Ball tells the fascinating story of how art, chemistry, and technology have interacted throughout the ages to render the gorgeous hues we admire on our walls
BOOK SYNOPSIS
From Egyptian wall paintings to the Venetian Renaissance, impressionism to digital images, Philip Ball tells the fascinating story of how art, chemistry, and technology have interacted throughout the ages to render the gorgeous hues we admire on our walls and in our museums.
Finalist for the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award.
AUTHOR BIO
Philip Ball majored in chemistry at the University of Oxford and received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Bristol. He is a writer and consulting editor for Nature and a regular contributor to the scientific and popular press, including New Scientist and the New York Times. Ball is the author of six other books, including The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature and Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0226036286
ISBN(13-digit): 9780226036281
Dewey Decimal: 701/.85
Library of Congress: 2002035981
Book Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Language: ENG
Binding: Sewn
No. of Pages: 382
Paper Weight (lb): 1.4
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