In pursuit of color. From fungi to fossil fuels: Uncovering the origins of the world's famous dyes
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Over the centuries our manipulation of the natural world has resulted in an explosion of synthetic dye production and application globally. To gain insight into the history of how folk practices have been lost and technical processes found, anthropologist and textile artist Lauren MacDonald explores a practice that is both ancient and wholly modern: coloring cloth. The(...)
In pursuit of color. From fungi to fossil fuels: Uncovering the origins of the world's famous dyes
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Over the centuries our manipulation of the natural world has resulted in an explosion of synthetic dye production and application globally. To gain insight into the history of how folk practices have been lost and technical processes found, anthropologist and textile artist Lauren MacDonald explores a practice that is both ancient and wholly modern: coloring cloth. The pursuit of color has long spurred economic and social contest, and through this deeply researched volume we explore the stories that the materials used to dye cloth tell us about our complex relationship to nature, our troubling ideas about progress and our understanding of power and labor. In Pursuit of Color: From Fungi to Fossil Fuels: Uncovering the Origins of the World's Most Famous Dyes brings together historic techniques, archive photography, specimens and present-day events to tell the histories of some of the world’s most important dyestuffs.
Colour Theory and Design
Lumière sur la couleur
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Les couleurs sont omniprésentes dans notre quotidien, et définir ce qu'est une couleur semble un exercice facile. C'est en réalité une notion difficile à cerner : la couleur du peintre n'est pas celle du physicien, la couleur biologique ne correspond pas à celle du numérique. Une couleur peut se voir, se toucher, se nommer ; on peut aussi mesurer sa longueur d'onde, la(...)
Lumière sur la couleur
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Les couleurs sont omniprésentes dans notre quotidien, et définir ce qu'est une couleur semble un exercice facile. C'est en réalité une notion difficile à cerner : la couleur du peintre n'est pas celle du physicien, la couleur biologique ne correspond pas à celle du numérique. Une couleur peut se voir, se toucher, se nommer ; on peut aussi mesurer sa longueur d'onde, la décomposer en pigments, l'inscrire dans un système ou tout simplement la ressentir. La couleur a son mot à dire dans les domaines les plus variés : sciences, symbolique, culture, zoologie, savoir-faire, histoire, économie. Lumière sur la couleur, destiné à un large public, rassemble dans un ouvrage abondamment illustré les différents aspects de ce sujet fascinant. Conçu par sept spécialistes de haut niveau, il propose une approche pluridisciplinaire permettant de définir et de comprendre notre relation au monde de la couleur.
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La ville en couleurs
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La couleur est une composante essentielle de notre environnement et libère des messages qui agissent sur notre inconscient et nos états d'âme. La couleur s'invite dans tous les domaines de la création, que ce soit la mode, le design, l'urbanisme, l'architecture ou l'art. Ce livre, magnifiquement illustré, nous promène de siècle en siècle et d'un continent à l'autre dans(...)
La ville en couleurs
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La couleur est une composante essentielle de notre environnement et libère des messages qui agissent sur notre inconscient et nos états d'âme. La couleur s'invite dans tous les domaines de la création, que ce soit la mode, le design, l'urbanisme, l'architecture ou l'art. Ce livre, magnifiquement illustré, nous promène de siècle en siècle et d'un continent à l'autre dans l'univers de la symbolique des couleurs. II met en lumière l'évolution du langage de la couleur à travers les civilisations. Dans la ville, comme dans l'art ou la décoration, les harmonies de couleurs sont en constante mutation. Interactions passionnantes entre les formes urbaines et le design, de l'Antiquité à nos jours.
Colour Theory and Design
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Sanzo Wada (1883-1967) was an artist, teacher, costume and kimono designer during a turbulent time in avant-garde Japanese art and cinema. Wada was ahead of his time in developing traditional and Western influenced colour combinations, helping to lay the foundations for contemporary colour research. Based on his original 6-volume work from the 1930s, this book offers 348(...)
A dictionary of color combinations
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Sanzo Wada (1883-1967) was an artist, teacher, costume and kimono designer during a turbulent time in avant-garde Japanese art and cinema. Wada was ahead of his time in developing traditional and Western influenced colour combinations, helping to lay the foundations for contemporary colour research. Based on his original 6-volume work from the 1930s, this book offers 348 color combinations, as attractive and sensuous as the books own design.
Colour Theory and Design
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Aimez-vous le vert ? À cette question les réponses sont partagées. En Europe, une personne sur six environ a le vert pour couleur préférée ; mais il s’en trouve presque autant pour détester le vert, tant chez les hommes que chez les femmes. Le vert est une couleur ambivalente, sinon ambiguë : symbole de vie, de sève, de chance et d’espérance d’un côté, il est de l’autre(...)
Michel Pastoureau : histoire d'une couleur
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Aimez-vous le vert ? À cette question les réponses sont partagées. En Europe, une personne sur six environ a le vert pour couleur préférée ; mais il s’en trouve presque autant pour détester le vert, tant chez les hommes que chez les femmes. Le vert est une couleur ambivalente, sinon ambiguë : symbole de vie, de sève, de chance et d’espérance d’un côté, il est de l’autre associé au poison, au malheur, au Diable et à ses créatures. Le livre de Michel Pastoureau retrace la longue histoire sociale, artistique et symbolique du vert dans les sociétés européennes, de la Grèce antique jusqu’à nos jours. Il souligne combien cette couleur qui a longtemps été difficile à fabriquer, et plus encore à fixer, n’est pas seulement celle de la végétation, mais aussi et surtout celle du Destin. Chimiquement instable, le vert a symboliquement été associé à tout ce qui était instable : l’enfance, l’amour, la chance, le jeu, le hasard, l’argent.
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Palette: Gold and silver
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With a wealth of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional design projects, this book guides the reader through the use of unusual elements and the ways their narrative qualities are employed to create a fresh perspective on the world. Elements utilized within these pages are as varied as string, wood, plastic, gilt and paper architecture.
Palette: Gold and silver
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With a wealth of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional design projects, this book guides the reader through the use of unusual elements and the ways their narrative qualities are employed to create a fresh perspective on the world. Elements utilized within these pages are as varied as string, wood, plastic, gilt and paper architecture.
Colour Theory and Design
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How do architects use colour? Do they adopt a different strategy or starting point for every project? Do they gradually cultivate individual colour palettes, which develop alongside their body of built work? Architectural colour in the professional palette investigates, documents and analyses the work of a number of contemporary architects in order to respond to these(...)
Architectural colour in the professional palette
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How do architects use colour? Do they adopt a different strategy or starting point for every project? Do they gradually cultivate individual colour palettes, which develop alongside their body of built work? Architectural colour in the professional palette investigates, documents and analyses the work of a number of contemporary architects in order to respond to these questions and provide a clear reference of contemporary colour use. The book suggests a holistic approach to the integration of colour in architecture; through a series of thematic essays, the text explores and reveals underlying principles in colour design and application.
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The luminous and the grey
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The Luminous and the Grey explores the places where color comes into being and where it fades away, probing when it begins and when it ends both in the imagination and in the material world. David Batchelor draws on neuroscience, philosophy, novels, films, and artists’ writings—as well as his own experience as an artist working with color—to understand how we see and use(...)
The luminous and the grey
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The Luminous and the Grey explores the places where color comes into being and where it fades away, probing when it begins and when it ends both in the imagination and in the material world. David Batchelor draws on neuroscience, philosophy, novels, films, and artists’ writings—as well as his own experience as an artist working with color—to understand how we see and use colors. He considers the role of color in creation myths, industrial chemistry, and optics, and examines the particular forms of luminosity that saturate the modern city.
Colour Theory and Design
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Examining the evolving place of green in art, clothes, literature, religion, science, and everyday life, Michel Pastoureau traces how culture has profoundly changed the perception and meaning of the color over millennia—and how we misread cultural, social, and art history when we assume that colors have always signified what they do today.
Green : the history of a color
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Examining the evolving place of green in art, clothes, literature, religion, science, and everyday life, Michel Pastoureau traces how culture has profoundly changed the perception and meaning of the color over millennia—and how we misread cultural, social, and art history when we assume that colors have always signified what they do today.
Colour Theory and Design
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Since its launch in 1976, the influential journal of art history and criticism October has not had one image reproduced in color. Well-known contemporary Scottish artist and writer David Batchelor playfully rectifies this situation in the series of delightful, exuberant and colorful drawings (2012 13) that transform every page of the magazine s first issue (Summer(...)
The October colouring-in book
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Since its launch in 1976, the influential journal of art history and criticism October has not had one image reproduced in color. Well-known contemporary Scottish artist and writer David Batchelor playfully rectifies this situation in the series of delightful, exuberant and colorful drawings (2012 13) that transform every page of the magazine s first issue (Summer 1976). Disrupting October s orderly monochromatic universe and textual clarity, Batchelor engages a carnival-like play of form and color on each page in abstract compositions of circles, triangles and rectangles of brilliant transparent color and opaque black planes
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