Victoria Finlay was the Arts Editor for the South China Morning Post for four years before leaving in 1999 to become a writer. She contributes regularly to Hong Kong and international media and does frequent radio broadcasts. She was born in England and has lived in Hong Kong since 1991.
发表于2024-11-25
Color 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
这本应是一本很好的书。 这本书是介绍各个颜色的起源的。在没有化工颜料之前,人们怎样作画,印染?这本书就是探寻天然颜料的起源的。 可惜的是,作者不是一个有经验的科普读物作家,她是个热爱颜色的研究生,为了探寻颜料的起源;她做了无数次寻访之旅。这本书倒不如说是她...
评分可能人们怎么也不会想到紫色是从一种贝类软体动物染料骨螺中提炼出来。为寻找紫色的发源地,维多利亚.芬利来到贝鲁特寻找紫色,酒店大堂经理建议她向北行驶,到基督教地区,会发现许多腓尼基人的遗体……腓尼基人在公元前3世纪从阿拉伯半岛来到黎巴嫩,是早期黎巴嫩的居民,他...
评分在豆瓣的看到这本书的介绍时就被吸引了,看书的时候觉得只是黑白的文字对各种颜色没有一个直观的了解,就坐在电脑旁边用google的图片搜索工具对书里面各种有趣的颜色,植物,石头一个一个地查,花了一天的时候,终于看完了,五颜六色的一天!
评分 评分与其说是“调色板的自然史”,不如说是作者寻找颜料的旅行手记,所以无关颜色的废话相当多,多到想从中提取有用信息都有些障碍重重。个人觉得整本书应该可以精简到250页左右。书中还有一些错误,书页margin处有不明数字(推测可能是原版的页码)。
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Defining color is a simple matter-visible light of a particular wavelength. Or is it? It turns out that the pigments and dyes responsible for hues have many remarkable characteristics, most of which we rarely ponder. Journalist Finlay's first book is a blend of travelogue and historical exploration about the myriad ways color takes on meaning for us, whether as a matter of aesthetics, economics, war or culture. The book has no overarching theme-it's all byways, an approach that works. Insofar as there is a thesis, it is that visual expression falls just behind procreation and the search for food and shelter as a fundamental human activity; countless peoples, Finlay reports, rank color and art among their primary concerns. During her journey, both literal and literary, Finlay learns of many little-known tribes and historical curiosities: too-trusting Puritans purchasing cheaply dyed black clothes destined to turn orange in a matter of weeks; the rise and heartbreaking fall of the art of the Pintupi tribe in barren central Australia during the 1970s; and the once-supreme economic clout of indigo from Bengal-to take just three examples among dozens. To delve into this book is to see the experimental, scientific side of the old masters and the artistic qualities of inventors and explorers. This is not a scientific work-those interested in rods and cones should look elsewhere. Thanks to Finlay's impeccable reportorial skills and a remarkable degree of engagement, this is an utterly unique and fascinating read. Illus., maps.
Color 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书