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Color Charts - A History
Anne Varichon; Translated by Pen and Ink Art Translations
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R1,150
Discovery Miles 11 500
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A beautifully illustrated history of the many inventive, poetic,
and beautiful ways in which color swatches have been selected and
staged The need to categorize and communicate color has mobilized
practitioners and scholars for centuries. Color Charts describes
the many different methods and ingenious devices developed since
the fifteenth century by doctors, naturalists, dyers, and painters
to catalog fragments of colors. With the advent of industrial
society, manufacturers and merchants developed some of the most
beautiful and varied tools ever designed to present all the
available colors. Thanks to them, society has discovered the
abundance of color embodied in a plethora of materials: cuts of
fabric, leather, paper, and rubber; slats of wood and linoleum;
delicate skeins of silk; careful deposits of paint and pastels;
fragments of lipstick; and arrangements of flower petals. These
samples shape a visual culture and a chromatic vocabulary and
instill a deep desire for color. Anne Varichon traces the emergence
of modern color charts from a set of processes developed over the
centuries in various contexts. She presents illuminating examples
that bring this remarkable story to life, from ancient writings
revealing attention to precise shade to contemporary designers’
color charts, dyers’ notebooks, and Werner’s famous color
nomenclature. Varichon argues that color charts have linked
generations of artists, artisans, scientists, industrialists, and
merchants, and have played an essential and enduring role in the
way societies think about color. Drawing on nearly two hundred
documents from public and private collections, almost all of them
previously unpublished, this wonderfully illustrated book shows how
the color chart, in its many distinct forms and expressions, is a
practical tool that has transcended its original purpose to become
an educational aid and subject of contemplation worthy of being
studied and admired.
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