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THE MODERN CLASSIC AND SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER.
NOW BOLDER, BRIGHTER AND EXPANDED INTO GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOUR WITH 25 NEW COLOURS.
'Dazzling and vibrant' Mail on Sunday
'Extraordinarily full and interesting' TLS
'Gorgeous' Guardian
'Charming' FT
'Beautiful' Daily Mail
'Irresistible' Country Living
The history of colour tells the vivid story of civilisation. From scarlet women to imperial purple, leaf green to the white paint that protected against the atom bomb, Picasso's blue period to the pink Barbie claimed for feminism, The Secret Lives of Colour offers a bright thread throughout human history.
Kassia St Clair's lifelong fascination with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or Dorothy's ruby slippers) takes us on an unforgettable journey through our past, present and future.
'An excellent, innovative and idiosyncratic cultural history that will colour your thinking' Spectator
'If you want to fall back in love with colour, read The Secret Lives of Colour' Sunday Telegraph
THE MODERN CLASSIC AND SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER.
NOW BOLDER, BRIGHTER AND EXPANDED INTO GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOUR WITH 25 NEW COLOURS.
'Dazzling and vibrant' Mail on Sunday
'Extraordinarily full and interesting' TLS
'Gorgeous' Guardian
'Charming' FT
'Beautiful' Daily Mail
'Irresistible' Country Living
The history of colour tells the vivid story of civilisation. From scarlet women to imperial purple, leaf green to the white paint that protected against the atom bomb, Picasso's blue period to the pink Barbie claimed for feminism, The Secret Lives of Colour offers a bright thread throughout human history.
Kassia St Clair's lifelong fascination with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or Dorothy's ruby slippers) takes us on an unforgettable journey through our past, present and future.
'An excellent, innovative and idiosyncratic cultural history that will colour your thinking' Spectator
'If you want to fall back in love with colour, read The Secret Lives of Colour' Sunday Telegraph
Kassia St Clair studied the history of women's dress and the masquerade during the eighteenth century at Bristol and Oxford. She has since written about design and culture for the Economist, House & Garden, TLS, Quartz and New Statesman, and has had a column about colour in Elle Decoration since 2013. Her first book The Secret Lives of Colour was a top-ten bestseller, a Radio 4 Book of the Week and has been translated into over a dozen languages; her second, The Golden Thread, was a Sunday Times Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Somerset Maugham Award. She lives in London.
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| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Kunst |
| Rubrik: | Kunst & Musik |
| Thema: | Innenarchitektur & Design |
| Medium: | Buch |
| ISBN-13: | 9781399823586 |
| ISBN-10: | 1399823582 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | St Clair, Kassia |
| Hersteller: |
Hodder And Stoughton Ltd.
John Murray Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Abbildungen: | 100 colours |
| Maße: | 223 x 142 x 38 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Kassia St Clair |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 09.10.2025 |
| Gewicht: | 0,954 kg |
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