Name: The Secret Lives of Colour
SKU: 50620465
Price: 357.00 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Author: Kassia St. Clair
ISBN: 9781473630833

Type

Physical Book

Author

Kassia St. Clair

Publisher

Hodder And Stoughton

Synopsis "The Secret Lives of Colour "

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very hard painting the hallway magnolia after this inspiring primer.' Simon Garfield The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most 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 colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilisation. Across fashion and politics, art and war, The Secret Lives of Colour tell the vivid story of our culture.

Kassia St. Clair

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Kassia St. Clair lives in London and is the best-selling British historian under 40. She has published articles, interviews, essays, and reviews in The Economist, Telegraph, Architectural Digest, TLS, and Wired; she had a color column in Elle Decoration for seven years. She has also given talks at places like the Dallas Museum of Art, Hay Festival, Victoria & Albert Museum, and Soho House. She is a frequent contributor to NPR's Marketplace. In 2018, she collaborated with Color Factory to create an exhibition at their New York headquarters

Her first book, The Secret Lives of Colour (2016), was a bestseller in the UK and explores the history and meaning of 75 colors, pigments, and dyes. This work was selected as Book of the Week by BBC Radio 4 and translated into twenty languages. In 2018, she published The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History, which examines the impact of fabrics and textiles on human history; the book was Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4, Book of the Year in The Sunday Times, and a finalist for the Somerset Maugham Award. Her third book, The Race to the Future (2023), addresses an Edwardian car race and the cultural and technological history of the era

Her writing is characterized by historical rigor, accessibility, and wit, bringing complex and technical subjects to the general public through surprising and detailed stories. She is known for her meticulous organization system and her preference for working analogically

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