The History of Colors

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Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Color: A Natural History of the Palette 3.80 avg rating — 71,305 ratings
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The Secret Lives of Color
The Secret Lives of Color 4.04 avg rating — 19,349 ratings
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World 3.67 avg rating — 1,876 ratings
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Interaction of Color
Interaction of Color 3.97 avg rating — 13,872 ratings
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Blue: The History of a Color
Blue: The History of a Color 3.99 avg rating — 1,703 ratings
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The Brilliant History of Color in Art
The Brilliant History of Color in Art 4.20 avg rating — 770 ratings
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Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color
Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color 4.05 avg rating — 1,222 ratings
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Chromophobia
Chromophobia 3.82 avg rating — 1,166 ratings
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Secret Language of Color: Science, Nature, History, Culture, Beauty of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, & Violet
Secret Language of Color: Science, Nature, History, Culture, Beauty of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, & Violet 4.15 avg rating — 513 ratings
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A Perfect Red
A Perfect Red 3.88 avg rating — 3,062 ratings
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ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color
ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color 3.34 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Black: The History of a Color
Black: The History of a Color 4.10 avg rating — 775 ratings
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What Color Is Your Personality?: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green...
What Color Is Your Personality?: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green... 3.65 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Color in Art
Color in Art
by: John Gage
3.60 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Colors: The Story of Dyes and Pigments
Colors: The Story of Dyes and Pigments 4.05 avg rating — 92 ratings
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On Being Blue
On Being Blue 3.84 avg rating — 1,982 ratings
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A Red Like No Other: How Cochineal Colored the World
A Red Like No Other: How Cochineal Colored the World 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Black: The History of the Color of the Occult
Black: The History of the Color of the Occult liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction
Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction
by: John Gage
4.25 avg rating — 126 ratings
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The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky 4.02 avg rating — 1,880 ratings
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The World According to Color: A Cultural History
The World According to Color: A Cultural History
by: James Fox
4.27 avg rating — 1,022 ratings
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An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour: The Harvard Art Museums' Forbes Pigment Collection
An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour: The Harvard Art Museums' Forbes Pigment Collection 4.33 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World 2.98 avg rating — 553 ratings
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Nature's Palette: The Science of Plant Color
Nature's Palette: The Science of Plant Color
by: David Lee
4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Primary Colors: Three Essays
The Primary Colors: Three Essays 4.05 avg rating — 310 ratings
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages 3.91 avg rating — 7,179 ratings
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The Meaning of Color in Ancient Mesopotamia
The Meaning of Color in Ancient Mesopotamia it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Secondary Colors: Three Essays
The Secondary Colors: Three Essays 4.33 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Red: The History of a Color
Red: The History of a Color 4.22 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Naming the Rainbow: Colour Language, Colour Science, and Culture
Naming the Rainbow: Colour Language, Colour Science, and Culture 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Rarest Blue: The Remarkable Story Of An Ancient Color Lost To History And Rediscovered
Rarest Blue: The Remarkable Story Of An Ancient Color Lost To History And Rediscovered 3.79 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World
Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World 4.38 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Secret Lives of Colour
The Secret Lives of Colour 4.04 avg rating — 19,349 ratings
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Yellow: The History of a Color
Yellow: The History of a Color 4.17 avg rating — 204 ratings
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German Colour Terms
German Colour Terms 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Opalescence: The Middle Miocene Play of Color
Opalescence: The Middle Miocene Play of Color 3.44 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Make Ink: A Forager’s Guide to Natural Inkmaking
Make Ink: A Forager’s Guide to Natural Inkmaking 4.38 avg rating — 473 ratings
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Colour Terms In Greek Poetry
Colour Terms In Greek Poetry it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Green: The History of a Color
Green: The History of a Color 4.15 avg rating — 461 ratings
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The ISCC-NBS Method of Designating Colors and a Dictionary of Color Names
The ISCC-NBS Method of Designating Colors and a Dictionary of Color Names 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Cochineal Red: The Art History of a Color
Cochineal Red: The Art History of a Color 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Chromatic Cinema: A History of Screen Color
Chromatic Cinema: A History of Screen Color 3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Veiled Brightness: A History of Ancient Maya Color (The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere)
Veiled Brightness: A History of Ancient Maya Color (The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Color: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors
Color: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors 4.03 avg rating — 2,381 ratings
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The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors
The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors 3.94 avg rating — 1,709 ratings
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African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent
African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent 4.34 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Island of the Colorblind
The Island of the Colorblind 3.88 avg rating — 5,100 ratings
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Color Charts: A History
Color Charts: A History 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Color: A Master Class: Art History · Masterpieces · Symbolism · Techniques
Color: A Master Class: Art History · Masterpieces · Symbolism · Techniques 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color Their Worlds
Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color Their Worlds 3.76 avg rating — 154 ratings
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The History of Color: A Universe of Chromatic Phenomena
The History of Color: A Universe of Chromatic Phenomena 3.86 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Why the Sky Is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life
Why the Sky Is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky
Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky 4.42 avg rating — 1,447 ratings
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Pink: The Exposed Color in Contemporary Art and Culture
Pink: The Exposed Color in Contemporary Art and Culture 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Blue: In Search of Nature’s Rarest Color
Blue: In Search of Nature’s Rarest Color 4.03 avg rating — 583 ratings
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Color: A Visual History from Newton to Modern Color Matching Guides
Color: A Visual History from Newton to Modern Color Matching Guides 4.05 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People 4.33 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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Seven Deadly Colours
Seven Deadly Colours 4.19 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments
The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments 3.95 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour (Hardback) /anglais
Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour (Hardback) /anglais 4.44 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Red: The Art and Science of a Colour
Red: The Art and Science of a Colour really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Book of Earth: A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color
Book of Earth: A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color 4.45 avg rating — 64 ratings
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My Indigo World: A True Story of the Color Blue
My Indigo World: A True Story of the Color Blue 4.12 avg rating — 119 ratings
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What Is Color?: 50 Questions and Answers on the Science of Color
What Is Color?: 50 Questions and Answers on the Science of Color 4.22 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Nature's Palette: A Color Reference System from the Natural World
Nature's Palette: A Color Reference System from the Natural World 4.66 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance & Baroque Engravings, Etchings & Woodcuts
Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance & Baroque Engravings, Etchings & Woodcuts 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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These Colors Are Bananas: Published in Association with the Whitney Museum of American Art
These Colors Are Bananas: Published in Association with the Whitney Museum of American Art 4.02 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Colorvision
Colorvision
by: Ron Cobb
4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings