Bright earth
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Open LibraryAbout this book
"Bright Earth provides a glimpse into a little-explored avenue in the history of art and science: the creation of pigments and dyes and their influence on painting, as well as on fashion, merchandising, and the textile and chemical industries. For as long as artists have turned their dreams into images, they have relied on technical knowledge to supply their materials. Today almost every shade imaginable is easily available in off-the-shelf tubes; every hue and tincture is manufactured and ready for immediate use by the painter. But up until the eighteenth century, most artists ground and mixed their own pigments, and by necessity had considerable skill as a practical chemists."--Jacket.
Themes & subjects
Color in artDyes and dyeingColour in artArt and industryColoring matterChemistry
First published 2001About the authors
Philip Ball
1962
Philip Ball is a British science writer and editor. For over twenty years he has been an editor of the journal Nature for which he continues to write regularly. Besides articles for journals, magazines, and newspapers, he has authored books on science and broadcast on many occasions on radio and TV. - Wikipedia
Philip Ball
1962
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