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Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic colour; or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? Throughout history, artist pigments have been made from deadly metals, poisonous minerals, urine, cow dung, and even crushed insects. From grinding down beetles and burning animal bones to alchemy and serendipity, Chromatopia reveals the origin stories of over 50 of history's most extraordinary pigments. Spanning the ancient world to modern leaps in technology, this is a book for the artist, the history buff, the science lover and the design fanatic.

Optics. Quantum optics --- Aesthetics of art --- History --- kleuren --- kleurenleer --- Color in art. --- Color --- Color. --- Colors --- Colors. --- History.

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Deux couleurs spécifiques, le vert et l'orange, sont ici analysées sur le temps long, du Moyen Âge à nos jours, à travers les représentations, les pratiques sociales et les expressions politiques. Leur choix renvoie à un lien étroit avec le végétal et des couleurs intermédiaires, fruit d'un mélange. Qualifiées de «secondaires», ces couleurs sont chargées de symboles et d'identifications aussi fortes que les couleurs primaires. Que sont alors leurs résonances anciennes et leurs évolutions au fil des siècles ? Des historiens, des historiens de l'art, des littéraires, des linguistes acceptant l'invitation de Jérôme Grévy, Christine Manigand, Denise Turrel, ont répondu à ces interrogations. Leurs regards croisés, portés sur des territoires et des pays différents, l'Allemagne, la France, l'Irlande, la Palestine, l'Ukraine, éclairent des usages pluriels des couleurs, de leurs représentations et de leurs instrumentalisations. Complexes constructions culturelles, les couleurs vert et orange véhiculent un large éventail de sens, de codes politiques et sociaux aux connotations parfois contradictoires mobilisées à des fins diverses, qu'il s'agisse du sort réservé aux roux, de la Révolution orange, du vert adopté par les Irlandais et des partis écologiques. En plaçant le vert et l'orange au coeur de leurs analyses, les auteurs proposent une réflexion originale et cohérente sur les rapports que des individus et des groupes sociaux entretiennent au cours des siècles avec les couleurs. --

Green --- Orange (color) --- Symbolism of colors --- Vert --- Orange (Couleur) --- Symbolisme des couleurs --- Aesthetics of art --- Vert. --- Orange (couleur). --- Couleurs --- Green. --- Orange (Color) --- Colors --- Aspect symbolique. --- Symbolic aspects

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Illuminated with a wide variety of images, this book traces the long history of yellow around the world. In antiquity, yellow was considered a sacred color, a symbol of light, warmth, wealth, and prosperity. But in medieval Europe, it became highly ambivalent: greenish yellow came to signify demonic sulfur and bile, the color of forgers, felon knights, traitors, Judas, and Lucifer-while warm yellow recalled honey and gold, serving as a sign of joy, pleasure and abundance. The yellow stars of the Holocaust were seared into the color's negative tradition. In Europe today, yellow has diminished to a discreet color. Greenish yellow can still be seen as dangerous, sickly, or poisonous, and golden yellow remains positive, but the color is absent in much of everyday life and is lacking in symbolism. In Asia, however, yellow pigments like ocher and orpiment and dyes like saffron, curcuma, and gaude are abundant. Painting and dyeing in this color has been easier than in Europe, offering a richer and more varied palette of yellows that has granted the color a more positive meaning. In ancient China, for example, yellow clothing was reserved for the emperor. In India, the color is seen as a source of happiness: wearing a little yellow is believed to keep evil away. And importantly, it is the color of Buddhism, whose temple doors are marked with the color. Yellow continues to have different meanings in different cultural traditions, but in most, the color remains associated with light and sun, something that can be seen from afar and that seems warm and always in motion.

Affective and dynamic functions --- Iconography --- History of civilization --- yellow [color] --- psychological primary colors --- Yellow --- Color --- Symbolism of colors --- Yellow in art --- Psychological aspects&delete& --- History --- Social aspects&delete& --- Color symbolism --- Symbolic colors --- Colors --- Psychological aspects --- Chromatics --- Colour --- Chemistry --- Light --- Optics --- Thermochromism --- Social aspects --- kleurgebruik

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Theory of knowledge --- Painting --- painting [image-making] --- epistemology --- colors [hues or tints]

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architecture [discipline] --- colors [hues or tints] --- kleuren --- architectuur --- García Uriburu, Nicolás