The Secret Lives of Color -

Kassia St Clair

Penguin Books

2017

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780143131144

The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso’s blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history.

In this book, Kassia St. Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colors and where they come from (whether Van Gogh’s chrome yellow sunflowers or punk’s fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilization. Across fashion and politics, art and war, the secret lives of color tell the vivid story of our culture.

Resenhas (1)

3.5 (Bom)

Um mundo de cores

Interessante o jeito que a narrativa foi construída. Algumas vezes a curiosidade sobre a cor era tão legal que leria vários capítulos sobre ela.

Gostei bastante da proposta