Kassia St. Clair is a freelance journalist and author based in London. She graduated from Bristol University with a first-class honors degree in history in 2007 and went on to do a master’s degree at Oxford. There she wrote her dissertation on women’s masquerade costumes during the eighteenth century and graduated with distinction. She has since written about design and culture for publications including The Economist, House & Garden, Quartz, and the New Statesman. She has had a column about color in Elle Decoration since 2013 and is a former assistant books and arts editor for The Economist.
发表于2024-11-27
The Secret Lives of Color 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
一点也不秘密啦,就是一本打开色彩秘密的书。 最近在装修房子,墙面乳胶漆我想能够有些变化,不是简单的白色。当设计师拿出一叠色卡的时候,我真是晕倒。我买过的最丰富的彩铅是72色,实际能用上的也不超过24色。拿到书后,我做的第一件事情是取出彩铅,看看能不能对上书里的这...
图书标签: 艺术 色彩 Art 艺术史 Arts 设计 观念史 生活
The unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume
“Beautifully written . . . Full of anecdotes and fascinating research, this elegant compendium has all the answers.” —NPR, Best Books of 2017
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.
“This passionate and majestic compedium will leave you bathed in the gorgeous optics of light.” —Elle
Strand Book Store, Greenwich Village, NY. 2019.03.01.
评分Strand Book Store, Greenwich Village, NY. 2019.03.01.
评分很简单漂亮的一本小书 琐碎的历史呈现在颜色这个精巧可爱的视角中
评分印刷美爆了,这才是纸质书的精华T T 前半部分直到红色都还风格迥异,但是后面的颜色有点千篇一律了,不知道是颜色本身无趣还是作者写不动了..不过对于我这种颜控还是一本超级满足的书
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The Secret Lives of Color 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书