Take a colorful walk through human ingenuity.
Humans have been unpacking the earth to use pigments since cavemen times. Starting out from surface pigments for cave paintings, we’ve dug deep for minerals, mined oceans for colors and exploited the world of plants and animals. Our accidental fumbles have given birth to a whole family of brilliant blues that grace our museums, mansions and motorcars. We’ve turned waste materials into a whole rainbow of tints and hues to color our clothes, our food and ourselves. With the snip of a genetic scissor, we’ve harnessed bacteria to gift us with “greener” blue jeans and dazzling dashikis. As the pigments march on into the future, who knows what new and exciting inventions will emerge?
Mary Virginia Orna, a world-recognized expert on color, will lead you through an illuminating journey exploring the science behind pigments. Pausing for reflections en route to share stories around pigment use and discoveries informed by history, religion, sociology and human endeavour, this book will have you absorbing science and regaling tales. Jam packed with nuggets of information, March of the Pigments will have the curiously minded and the expert scientist turning pages to discover more.
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Dissecting Daylight: How We See Color;
Dark Unfathom’d Caves: The Earliest Cultural Use of Color;
Body Art in All Its Parts: Cosmetics Gone Wild;
The Tombs of the Pharaohs: Egypt’s Legacy to Civilization;
Buried Treasure: The Earth Yields Up its Secrets;
Purveyors of Purple: The Oceans’ Gift to the World of Color;
In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Window on the Ancient Palette;
Monastery Mysteries: Illuminating the Dark Ages;
Botticell’s Bottega: The Glory of the Renaissance;
Aztec Red and Maya Blue: Secrets of the New World;
Alchemical Anomalies: Accidents Will Happen;
Out of the Depths: Synthetic Colors From the Coal Tar Industry;
Monet’s Garden: Impressionist Innovation and Beyond;
The Forest Primeval: Arboreal Bounty;
Dr. Ehrlich Meets the Poison Squad: Pigments in Food and Medicine;
An Evolving Universe: The Pigments March On
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