A cultural history through seven coloured lenses. Its broad frame of reference encompasses Shakespeare, Goldfinger (first name Auric), Goethe, Roman marbles, Bronze Age gold, Mayan jade… Colours as metaphors, pigments, influences – “We have projected our hopes, anxieties and obsessions onto colour for thousands of years. The history of colour, therefore, is also a history of humanity”.
The World According to Colour: A Cultural History
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London`s New Scene – Art and Culture in the 1960s
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After a lapse of more than a decade, a reissue of Cooper's marvelous biography of the father of British studio pottery.
Bernard Leach – Life and Work
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This is a study of a single monumental wall-hanging in Mexico City, which was exhibited in New York in 2019.
Anni Albers
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A study of the beginnings of the idea of the 'modern artist'. Not set in Paris or New York, as you might expect, but London among the students at the Royal Academy between 1769 to 1830.