Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color

From Egyptian wall paintings to the Venetian Renaissance, impressionism to digital images, Philip Ball tells the fascinating story of how art, chemistry, and technology have interacted throughout the ages to render the gorgeous hues we admire on our walls and in our museums.

Finalist for the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award.

• Color: A Natural History of the Palette
• The Brilliant History of Color in Art
• Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary Edition
• On Color
• Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World
• The Secret Lives of Color
• Secret Language of Color Science, Nature, History, Culture, Beauty of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, & Violet
• Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction
• The Color Revolution (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation)
• Werner's Nomenclature of Colours: Adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Anatomy, and the Arts