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Author Loske, Alexandra, 1969- author.

Title Color : a visual history from Newton to modern color matching guides / Alexandra Loske.

Publication Info. Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, [2019]
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  701.85 LOS    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  701.85 LOS    AVAILABLE
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Description 240 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Contents Unraveling the rainbow : the eighteenth-century color revolution -- Romantic ideas and new technologies : the early nineteenth century -- Industrialism to impressionism : the later nineteenth century -- Color for color's sake -- Color into the future : the wheels keep on spinning.
Summary "Charts color exploration and expression from the 1600s to the present day through painters' tools, art, ephemera, and literature"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-233) and index.
Subject Color -- History.
Colors -- History.
Color in art.
ISBN 9781588346575 (hardback)
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