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The Colour Code - Why we see red, feel blue and go green (Paperback, Main)
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The Colour Code - Why we see red, feel blue and go green (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R397
Discovery Miles 3 970
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How is The Colour Code different to other books on colour? Well,
the short answer is that it is a whole lot more fun - not least
because it is extensively illustrated. We don't just get a story
about Mummy Brown (the pigment made from Egyptian mummies), we see
a painting created with pigments from the remains of French kings.
We are reminded of the blue/gold dress that swept Twitter, view
paintings by Mondrian (red ones sell for higher prices) and Van
Eyck (he invented an enduring green), and inspect the red soles of
Louboutin shoes. We see what lumps of Indian yellow look like,
while reading what they are made of (strained cow's urine). We get
to see the latest most vibrant pigment - YinMn Blue - and have a
real estate agent's tour of Frank Sinatra's ranch (he was obsessed
by orange). We see William Morris's arsenic-inflected wallpapers
and hear about whether wallpaper killed Napoleon. We encounter the
pink pussy hats worn on the Women's March and Elvis's pink jackets
from Lansky's in Memphis, take in a history of the black dress from
Audrey Hepburn to Princess Diana and a rare black chicken (even its
eggs are black) from Indonesia. Featuring a cast of actors,
artists, chemists, composers, dentists, dictators, fashion
designers, film-makers, gods, musicians, mystics, physicists,
poets, quacks, tigers and tycoons, The Colour Code will change the
way we all perceive the spectrum - and see the world.
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