Indicios: Las Vidas Secretas del Color (Hardcover)

from LynnB

An absolutely beautiful book which not only talks about colour, but features each discussed colour as edging of its pages. The author provides a brief introduction about how we see and perceive colour, then goes on to provide a short vignette on 76 different colours in a few pages each. The vign...

from hadden

I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I wasn't expecting very much, but was surprised by the depth of research in each of the colors shown here. The information comes from art history, of course, but also includes military history (who knew Lord Mountbatten had a camouflage color named after h...

from maryzee

Interesting and easy read about the history and mystique of many colors through history.

from PDCRead

We take colour for granted these days; where ever you look you have garish clothing and brightly painted items competing for attention. But it was never like that, go back several hundred years ago, and lost people wore grey or brown cloth that had been dyed with the ochres and earth colours. Tho...

from kaylaraeintheway

I love histories like this: a focus on a very specific yet unconventional thing. In this case, colors! I learned so many interesting tidbits, and it's fun to see how something like color was affected by history.