The Materiality of Color: The Production, Circulation, and Application of Dyes and Pigments, 1400-1800

The Materiality of Color: The Production, Circulation, and Application of Dyes and Pigments, 1400-1800
ISBN-10
1409429156
ISBN-13
9781409429159
Category
Art
Pages
394
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Authors
Andrea Feeser, Maureen Daly Goggin, Beth Fowkes Tobin

Description

The purpose of this essay collection is to recover color's complex and sometimes morally troubling past. By emphasising color's materiality, and how it was produced, exchanged and used, contributors draw attention to the disjuncture between the beauty of color and the blood, sweat, and tears that went into its production, circulation and application as well as to the complicated and varied social meanings attached to color within specific historical and social contexts.

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