The materiality of color : the production, circulation, and application of dyes and pigments, 1400-1800 / edited by Andrea Feeser, Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feeser, Andrea.

Goggin, Maureen Daly.

Tobin, Beth Fowkes.

Series:

Histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950

The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colors--Social aspects--History.

Symbolism of colors.

Dyes and dyeing--History.

Dyes and dyeing.

History.

Dye industry--History.

Pigments industry--History.

Pigments industry.

Dye industry.

Colors--Social aspects.

Colors.

Physical Description:

xix, 333 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham : Ashgate, 2012.

Summary:

Historians, art historians, and scholars of literature examine the aesthetic, economics, and social value of color in the material world. They use case studies of how color was produced, used, consumed, and circulated within particular and specific historical, social, and cultural contexts. The overall themes are color's social and cultural meanings, producing and exchanging pigments and dyes, and making colored objects. Among the topics are colorizing New England's burying grounds, the taste for china and the consumption of color in 18th-century England, Indian indigo, the design and color of glass bracelets as identity markers in the medieval and early modern Middle East, the evolution of blackface cosmetics on the early modern stage, and coloring natural history illustrations in late-18th-century Britain. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Color's Social and Cultural Meanings

Producing and Exchanging Pigments and Dyes

Making Colored Objects

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409429159

1409429156

OCLC:

779864347