"A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color. We have an extraordinary connection to color--we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven main colors--black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple, and green--and uncovers behind each...

Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic colour; or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? Throughout history, artist pigments have been made from deadly metals, poisonous minerals, urine, cow dung, and even crushed insects. From grinding down beetles and burning animal bones to alchemy and serendipity, Chromatopia reveals the origin stories of over 50 of history's most extraordinary pigments. Spanning the ancient...

Contains a visual directory of over 10,000 color mixes for artists - the complete book of mixing colors.

"The unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume 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...

The fruit of a palm tree changes from green to orange when it becomes ripe. Its color lets monkeys know when the fruit is ready to eat. The bright purple color of a flower tells a hummingbird there is sweet nectar inside. Early readers will be taken on a dazzling journey in this simple yet captivating text about the bright colors of a rain forest, and what meanings they reveal. Each 24-page book features controlled text with age-appropriate vocabulary...

Black, favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists, has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. In this book, the author of Blue now tells the fascinating social history of the color black in Europe. In the beginning was black, he tells us. The archetypal color of darkness and death, black was associated...

Join us on a trek through life through the eyes of eleven unique writers. Green: A Blue Feet Anthology follows a full lifecycle narrative, carrying us among the new experiences and unsettling disruptions. Each piece of prose and poetry is a celebration of experimental writing from emerging South Australian writers and creative researchers. Their narratives respond to the theme of Green and talk to each other as they explore the challenges and detours...