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Información de la obraColour: Travels Through the Paintbox por Victoria Finlay (2002)
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. interesting but not compelling at all, I had to remind myself to pick it up ( ) To research the history of color is brilliant like a box of sixty-four. Who, for example, has thought about from where ochre originated? According to Finlay, ochre is the first color(s) of paint. I did not know that and to be totally honest, nor have I ever thought about ochre in this way. [My only thoughts in ochre were to be confused about what shade of yellow, red, or brown it is supposed to be.] Did you ever wonder what the HB on a pencil meant? Hardness and blackness. How about the origin of the phrase, "cut through all this red tape"? Who knew? Apparently, Finlay. That's who. She took the time to travel the globe looking for answers about color: Australia for ochre, England for black and brown, China for white, Chile for red, Italy for orange, India for yellow,...I wanted to make a map of all her travels. On the heels of reading Travels in a Thin Country I couldn't stop comparing Sara Wheeler's adventure to that of Victoria Finlay. There is a fair amount of humor in Color. To see what I mean, find the section where Finlay describes the interesting practice of boiling cow urine after the bovine have been fed a steady diet of mango leaves for two weeks straight. I absolutely loved this. Might not be for everyone but for a watercolorist who adores color - and fascinating history brought to life - it felt like you were right there, trotting around the globe, real-world verifying the backstories, vetting the myths and chasing elusive clues of the resplendent colors of your imagination (and palette). I learned so much and was so inspired. It added a whole new natural grounding dimension to art for me. Dyes and pigments have been fairly interesting and important to me for a while--growing up, I lived pretty close to a Williamsburg-like living history museum, where I learned a fair bit about using natural dyes like black walnut and goldenrod that could be found or grown at the museum. Having appreciated them then and having read a book several years ago about the history of (in particular) the red cochineal dye, I was really excited when I learned about this book a while ago. I definitely learned quite a bit about the history of dyes and similar materials from this book. It's arranged thematically by color, which chapters for all the colors of the rainbow as well as brown, black, and white. I think my favorite chapters were probably green, indigo (which has also always been one of my favorite materials to dye with), and purple. The purple chapter, right at the end of the book, was especially interesting to me because I'd known that snails were used for Roman dyes for a long time, and I really enjoyed learning about the process here. Perhaps a major caution or just fyi that I'd like to add to this book, though, which keeps me from wanting to rate it higher is that not all of the book is quite what I'd expected--I'd gone into the book expecting information on the history of colors, which there definitely was, but the book was really more properly half history, half travelogue. Very substantial portions of each chapter are about the author traveling to India or Lebanon or Mexico or China or other places to physically visit places important in the history of different colors' dyestuffs. While I did enjoy parts of this, it really wasn't what I was expecting from the book, and I think I'd have been perfectly happy with a bit more focus on the colors and dyes themselves. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
En este vívido y cautivador viaje a través de los colores de la paleta de un artista, Victoria Finlay nos lleva a una apasionante aventura alrededor del mundo y a través de los tiempos, iluminando cómo los colores que elegimos valorar han determinado la historia de la propia cultura. ¿Cómo viajó el preciado color azul desde las remotas minas de lapislázuli de Afganistán hasta el pincel de Miguel Ángel? ¿Cuál es la relación entre la pintura marrón y las antiguas momias egipcias? ¿Por qué Robin Hood vestía de verde Lincoln? En Color, Finlay explora los materiales físicos que colorean nuestro mundo, como los minerales preciosos y la sangre de los insectos, así como los significados sociales y políticos que el color ha tenido a lo largo del tiempo. Los emperadores romanos solían llevar togas teñidas de un color púrpura que se fabricaba con un oloroso marisco libanés, lo que probablemente significaba que su olor les precedía. En el siglo XVIII, el tinte negro se llamaba logwood y crecía a lo largo del Meno español. Algunas de las primeras plantaciones de índigo fueron iniciadas en América, sorprendentemente, por una chica de diecisiete años llamada Eliza. Y el popular cuadro de Van Gogh Rosas blancas de la Galería Nacional de Washington tuvo que ser rebautizado después de que un investigador descubriera que las flores estaban hechas originalmente con una pintura rosa que se había desvanecido hacía casi un siglo. El color está repleto de personas, acontecimientos y anécdotas extraordinarias, pintadas de forma aún más deslumbrante por el atractivo estilo de Finlay. Embárquese en una emocionante aventura con esta intrépida periodista mientras viaja en burro por las antiguas rutas comerciales de la seda; con los fenicios que navegaban por el Mediterráneo en busca de una concha especial de color púrpura que cosechaba riqueza, sustento y prestigio; con los modernos agricultores chilenos que crían y desangran insectos por su viscosa sangre roja. Los colores que elaboran nuestro mundo nunca han sido tan brillantes. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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