Color: A Visual History from Newton to Modern Color Matching Guides

by Alexandra Loske

Charts color exploration and expression from the 1600s to the present day through painters' tools, art, ephemera, and literature

Throughout history, artists, scientists, and philosophers have attempted to explain and order the visible color spectrum. Color: A Visual History from Newton to Modern Color Matching Guides offers the fascinating history of how color has been recorded, explored, and understood. Using an extraordinary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588346579
• ISBN13: 9781588346575
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.6" x 10.9"