Chromorama : how colour changed our way of seeing
Falcinelli, Riccardo, 1973-2022
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Have you ever wondered why so many pencils are yellow? Why black is the colour of mourning? Or why carrots are orange? In Chromorama, acclaimed graphic designer Riccardo Falcinelli delves deep into the history of colour to show how it has shaped the modern gaze. With over four hundred illustrations throughout and with examples ranging widely across art and culture - from Flaubert's novels to The Simpsons, from Byzantine jewellery to misshapen fruit, from the black lines of Mondrian to the thrillers of Hitchcock - Falcinelli traces the evolution of our long relationship with colour, and how first the industrial revolution, and then the dawn of the internet age, changed it forever. Beautiful, warm and wise, taking in the lives of philosophers, entrepreneurs, designers, astrologists, shop assistants and pastry chefs, Chromoroma is an engrossing account of shade and light, of tone and hue, of dyes, pigments, and pixels. It is the story of why we now see the world the way we do.
Main title:
Chromorama : how colour changed our way of seeing / Riccardo Falcinelli ; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre.
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Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2022.©2022
Collation:
vii, 468 pages : colour illustrations ; 22 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.Translated from the Italian.
ISBN:
9780241573792 (pbk)9780241573792
Dewey class:
535.6
Language:
EnglishItalian
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BRN:
537040
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Science and Technology | 535.6 FAL | Available |