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A book to brighten the dullest days
A book to brighten the dullest days
A brilliantly fluent and readable history of colour
Fairly shimmers with Fox's eye for arresting facts and anecdotes
Intelligent, vividly written ... I'm going to buy three copies
Flits with enthusiasm and lightly worn learning from Bronze Age gold-workers to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein
Colour becomes a philosophical feast - astrophysics, the origins of civilisation, a palette of moral associations
A manual to navigate and enjoy the extraordinary design of the world around us
Leads down some wonderful rabbit holes
A book that makes you want to paint
James Fox is Director of Studies in History of Art at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and a BAFTA-nominated broadcaster. His many acclaimed BBC television documentaries include programmes about British art, Japanese culture and an enduringly popular history of colour in art.