As cores, o que significam e como as obter

Acabou de ser publicado:

Anne Varichon, Colors. What they mean and how to make them, New York, Abrams, 2006.

Índice:

White

• Creation myths
• A celestial whiteness
• The pilgrim’s white habit
• Milk white
• Passages
• Gray hair, the shroud, and beyond
• The overwhelming desire for white

Yellow

• Numerous yellow pigments
• A profusion of yellow dyes
• With a color ranging from honey to sulphur
• A slow rehabilitation

Red

• The redness of fertility
• Protective red
• The red of battle
• Red privilege
• The red of gods
• Red an death

Violet

• Purple
• Violet textiles made without murex
• Violets in art

Blue

• A blue planet?
• Where blue is rare!
• The mystery of the blue vats
• Blue dread
• The triumphant destiny of blue in the west

Green

• Blue, the yellow
• Is the grass always green?
• From power to a cruel destiny
• Green’s slow redemption in the west

Brown and black

• The edges, limbo, spirits, and death
• Painting the darkness
• Black ink
• The difficulty of black dyes
• Black on the skin