'Color Charts: A History' by Anne Varichon
£45.00
A beautifully illustrated history of the many inventive, poetic and beautiful ways in which colour swatches have been selected and staged.
The need to categorise and communicate colour has inspired practitioners and scholars for centuries. Color Charts describes the many different methods and ingenious devices developed since the fifteenth century by doctors, naturalists, dyers, and painters to catalog fragments of colours. Anne Varichon presents a stunning range of examples that bring this remarkable story back to life, from ancient writings revealing attention to precise shade to contemporary designers' colour charts, dyers' notebooks, and Werner's famous colour nomenclature.
Drawing on nearly two hundred examples from public and private collections, almost all of them previously unpublished, this wonderfully illustrated book shows how the colour chart in its any distinct forms and expressions, is a practical tool that has transcended its original purpose to become a subject of contemplation worthy of study and admiration.
Anne Varichon is an anthropologist specialising in material cultures and ideas about colour. She is the author of Colors: What They Mean and How to Make Them.
Details
Length: 29cm
Width: 25.5cm
Depth: 3.5cm
Weight: 2kg
Material: Paper
