Bright Earth (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip Ball
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Fine arts, history of science, and science
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Science and technology, Arts
- Subjects: Language or languages, Art or artists, Science or scientists, Painting or painters, Greek or Roman times, Computers, Light, Colors, Chemistry or chemists
In Life’s Matrix: A Biography of Water (2000), polymath Philip Ball gave himself no less challenging a task than to explain the physics, chemistry, mythology, sociology, psychology, and politics of water from the beginning of time to the present. His goal for his latest book, Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color, is scarcely less ambitious: to trace the history of Western art from cave painting to the ancient Greeks to the artists working with computers at the turn of the twenty-first century, and to do it through the lens of chemistry. Ball looks at color in a...
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