The brilliant history of color in art, Victoria Finlay

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The brilliant history of color in art, Victoria Finlay

Statement of responsibility

Victoria Finlay

Instantiates

• The brilliant history of color in art

Publication

• Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2014

Copyright

• ©2014

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Includes index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

• still image
• still image

Content type code

• sti
• sti

Content type MARC source

• rdacontent
• rdacontent

Contents

1. Earth and fire -- Manganese black : art in the Ice Age -- Red ocher : the sacred and dangerous in Australia -- Egyptian blue : King Tut's infrared transmitter -- Greek white : the myth of the white city -- Yellow ocher : Apelles and slime -- 2. Rocks, minerals, twigs, and bugs -- Tyrian purple : Cleopatra's royal color -- Cinnabar, vermilion, and minium : beautiful but deadly -- Black ink : who needs color anyway? -- Gold : medieval radiance -- Green earth : unearthly undertones -- The age of canvas : painting on sails -- Ultramarine : from the valley of the stone -- Cochineal : a new world color in art (and your lunch) -- Logwood black : puritans and pirates -- Cobalt : blue at the scene of the crime -- Lead white : the enchantress -- Indigo : girl power in South Carolina -- Gainsborough blue : never use blue in the center -- Rose : Madame Pompadour's luxurious pink -- Light : and the age of Enlightenment -- Titian blue : simply unbelievable -- Indian yellow : Turner, cows, and mangoes -- Madder red : inventing the color wheel -- Graphite : pencil lead is not lead -- Mummy brown : funeral for pharaohs -- 3. Modern colors -- Mauve : chemistry project gone wrong -- Prussian blue : the blue that was supposed to be bed -- Emerald green : the mystery of the poisonous wallpaper -- Black and white and sepia : what you can't see in photographs -- Manganese violet : Monet goes outside -- Chrome yellow : color from Siberia -- Patent blue, tartrazine, and rose bengal : mix with potatoes for delicious color -- Cadmium yellow : listening to colors with Kadinsky -- Lithol red : endless journey of the eye -- International Klein blue : this is not your blue -- Orange 36 and violet 19 : Lichtenstein and the rise of the superheroes -- Painting with light : pixels as pigment

Control code

000053607768

Dimensions

27 cm.

Extent

120 pages

Isbn

9781606064290

Isbn Type

(hardback)

Lccn

2014019235

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Other control number

YBP11807048

Other physical details

illustrations (chiefly color)

Record ID

u164370

System control number

(OCoLC)879583340