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Color : a natural history of the palette / Victoria Finlay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Finlay, Victoria.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Finlay, Victoria--Travel.
- Finlay, Victoria.
- Travel.
- Colors--History.
- Colors.
- Colors--Social aspects.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 448 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine Books, 2002.
- Summary:
- In "Color, " a narrative history of the colors of the rainbow, author Finlay explores the physical materials that color the world, such as lapis and insectUs blood, as well as the social and political meanings that color has carried throughout time.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-405) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0345444302 :
- OCLC:
- 51302192
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