‘Extraordinary. A<\/b>n intellectual feast as well as a <\/b>visual one<\/b>‘
<\/b>Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book reveals. Each chapter immerses the reader in a single colour, drawing together stories from the histories of art and humanity to illuminate the meanings it has been given over the eras and around the globe. Showing how artists, scientists, writers, philosophers, explorers and inventors have both shaped and been shaped by these wonderfully myriad meanings, James Fox reveals how, through colour, we can better understand their cultures, as well as our own. Each colour offers a fresh perspective on a different epoch, and together they form a vivid, exhilarating history of the world. ‘We have projected our hopes, anxieties and obsessions onto colour for thousands of years,’ Fox writes. ‘The history of colour, therefore, is also a history of humanity.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The subject of this book is mankind’s extraordinary relationship with colour. It is composed of a series of voyages, ranging across the world and throughout history, which reveal the meanings that have been attached to the colours we see around us and the ways these have shaped our culture and imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[637],"product_tag":[1445,650,1941,349],"class_list":["post-98259","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-art","product_tag-history-of-art-art-design-styles","product_tag-history-earliest-times-to-present-day","product_tag-social-cultural-anthropology-ethnography","product_tag-social-cultural-history","pa_book_author-fox-james","pa_cover-paperback","pa_dewey-701-85-edition23","pa_imprint-penguin-books","pa_language-english","pa_pages-8634","pa_publisher-penguin-books","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n