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Living Colors The Definitive Guide to Color Palettes Through the Ages

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ISBN-10: 0811837297

ISBN-13: 9780811837293

Edition: 2002

Authors: Margaret Walch, Augustine Hope

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The authors present the 80 most significant colour palettes in history. Beginning with the colours of the ancient Eqyptians and ending with colours of the late 20th century, each scheme is individually presented, profiledd and illustrated in a handy gatefold format.
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Publication date: 11/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 162
Size: 10.00" wide x 11.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.190
Language: English

Introduction
Notes on Color
Matching Color
Color Terms and Historic Pigments
Anonymous Artists
Egyptian Painted Decoratives
Sophisticated Greek Earthtones
Pompeii's Mural Exotics
Coptic Woven Paintings
Bayeux Tapestry's Medieval Tints
Stained Glass Spirituals
Russian Icons--Byzantine Traditions
Illuminated Prayer Books
Unicorn Tapestries--End of an Era
Heroes of the Renaissance
Duccio di Buoninsegna
Uccello
Piero della Francesca
Jan van Eyck
Leonardo da Vinci
Hans Holbein
Agnolo Bronzino
El Greco
Age of Interiors
The Dutch Home--Through Vermeer's Eyes
Rococo's Glitzy Interiors
Adam Brothers' Classicism
Wedgwood Blues
Colonial America's Imported Taste
Federal America: Fashion Victim
Enriched Classicism for Empires
Victorian Overstuffed Interiors
Orientalism
Moorish Spain's Tiles
Renaissance Italy's Majolica
Turkey's Iznik Tiles
Mughal India's Paper Museums
Kilims of Anatolia
China's Hand-Painted Wallpapers
Paisley's Indian Roots
Japan's Ukiyo-e Woodblocks
Victorian Decoratives
Shaker Minimalism
Victorian Painted Ladies
Owen Jones--Ornament's Grammarian
William Morris's Refined Decoratives
Tartans of Scotland--Home-Grown Colors
Liberty & Co. Prints
Tiffany's Modern Stained Glass
Shades of the Machine Age
Frank Lloyd Wright
SoHo Cast-Iron Deeps
Cubism: The Industrial Palette
The De Stijl Style
Josef Albers: Interaction of Color
Art Deco Syncopation
Pueblo Deco Theatricals
Tropical Deco Resort
Diego Rivera--The Mexican Muralist
Fashion's Theatrics
The New Century: Poiret's Exotics
The Twenties: Deco Neutrals and Brights
The Thirties: Shocking Schiaparelli Pink
The Forties: Color Rationing
The Fifties: Pretty in Pastels
The Sixties: Acid Psychedelics
The Seventies: Anti-Fashion Rules
The Eighties: Japanese Minimalism
American Pop
Hand-Tinted Holiday Postcards
Bakelite's Consumer Culture
Harlequin--Dinnerware Brights
Hawaiian Prints--President Truman's Shirt
On-the-Road Pastels--Fifties America
Autumnals in the Fifties
Comic Book Brights
Pop Art's Take on Chromotypes
Artists' Signatures
Turner's Yellows
Whistler's Chords
Monet's Impressions
Seurat's Points
Gauguin's Primitives
Kandinsky's Spirituals
Klee's Grids
Modigliani's Mistress
Matisse's Beasts
Ethnic Sources
India's Subtropical Brights
Asian Tie-Dyes
Peru's Warm Harmonies
Guatemala's Tropical Brights
Mineral Tones of the Southwest
The Universal Mudtones
Color Palettes
Index