Red : the art and science of a colour / Spike Bucklow
Publisher: London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 255 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781780235912
- 1780235917
- Art and science of a colour
- 752 23
- 155.91145
- 535.609
- ND1510 .B83 2016
- BF789.C7 B83 2016
Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Book | NMC Library | Stacks | BF789 .C7 B83 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 33039001405751 |
Browsing NMC Library shelves, Shelving location: Stacks Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
BF773 .D85 2006 Mindset : the new psychology of success / | BF773 .K737 2022 The believer : encounters with the beginning, the end, and our place in the middle / | BF773 .S56 1997 Why people believe weird things : pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time / | BF789 .C7 B83 2016 Red : the art and science of a colour / | BF789 .C7 P3613 2001 Blue : the history of a color / | BF789 .C7 P3813 2009 Black : the history of a color / | BF789 .C7 P39513 2014 Green : the history of a color / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-243) and index
Introduction -- Animal reds -- Eastern trees -- Fruits of the earth -- Mysterious reds -- Reds for a better life -- Brave new reds -- Crossing the red line -- Red meanings -- Red earth -- Red blood -- Red fire -- Red passions. References -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Photo acknowledgements -- Index
Red grabs your attention. Today we associate red with danger, sex, anger and more, yet the color was once so significant that things which have a profound impact upon our lives were widely called red, even though they are often not red at all. The author takes us from a 34,000-year-old shaman burial dress to the iPhone screen, exploring the myriad of purposes we have put red to as well as the materials from which it comes. The pursuit of the color drove medieval alchemy and modern chemistry alike, and red has been found in insects, tree resins, tar, earths, and excitable gases. It is associated with earth, blood and fire, with the holy, with national flags and powerful ideologies. This book is a material and cultural history that makes one see this color afresh, a crucial part of the human visual world
There are no comments on this title.