Art Unfolded : A History of Art in Four Colours_Ben Street _9781781575628_Octopus Publishing Group

Author:  Ben Street 

Format: Paperback | 128 pages         

Dimensions: 138 x 174 x 12mm | 206g   

Publication date: 4 Sep 2018

Divine blue
Sensual red
Deathly green
Glistening gold

These four colours tell the story of art in a way that few other elements can. From the pigments used to make them - sometimes wildly expensive, like ultramarine, or dangerously toxic, like emerald green - to the varied and changing meanings applied to them, these colours grant us access to fascinating stories, both of individual works of art and the world in which they were created.