Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color

Ball, Philip

ISBN 10: 0226036286 / ISBN 13: 9780226036281

Published by University of Chicago Press, 2003

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First edition w/full number line. Very good paperback w/shiny covers, no spine crease, light wear incl. corner bend/crease on upper left of back cover. One corner fold at the beginning of "Notes" else pages very good, no marks. See photos.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226036286
• ISBN 13: 9780226036281
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Math & Engineering & Science
  • Art

About this title

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.

About the Author

Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has written many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and wider culture, including H2O: A Biography of Water, The Music Instinct, and Alchemy. His book Critical Mass won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Ball is also the 2022 recipient of the Royal Society’s Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal for contributions to the history, philosophy, or social roles of science. He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol, and he was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He lives in London.