Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color

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From Egyptian wall paintings to the Venetian Renaissance, impressionism to digital images, Philip Ball tells the fascinating story of how art, chemistry, and technology have interacted throughout the ages to render the gorgeous hues we admire on our walls and in our museums.

Finalist for the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award.

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THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER The Scientist in the Studio
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PLUCKING THE RAINBOW The Physics and Chemistry of Color
24
THE FORGE OF VULCAN Color Technology in Antiquity
50
SECRET RECIPES Alchemys Artistic Legacy
72
MASTERS OF LIGHT AND SHADOW The Glory of the Renaissance
103
OLD GOLD The Revival of an Austere Palette
128
THE PRISMATIC METALS Synthetic Pigments and the Dawn of Color Chemistry
147
THE REIGN OF LIGHT Impressionisms Bright Impact
168
SHADES OF MIDNIGHT The Problem of Blue
229
TIME AS PAINTER The EverChanging Canvas
248
CAPTURING COLOR How Art Appears in Reproduction
267
MIND OVER MATTER Color as Form in Modernism
299
ART FOR ARTS SAKE New Materials New Horizons
314
Notes
337
Bibliography
353
Index
359

A PASSION FOR PURPLE Dyes and the Industrialization of Color
195

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Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has written many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and wider culture, including H2O: A Biography of Water and The Music Instinct. His book Critical Mass won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Ball is also the 2022 recipient of the Royal Society's Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal for contributions to the history, philosophy, or social roles of science. He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol, and he was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He lives in London.

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