The secret language of color : science, nature, history, culture, beauty of red, orange, yellow, green, blue & violet / Joann Eckstut and Arielle Eckstut.

By:

Eckstut, Joann [author]

Contributor(s):

Eckstut, Arielle [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers : Distributed by Workman Pub., [2013]Description: 240 pages : color illustrations; 26 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781579129491

Subject(s):

Color -- Popular works

DDC classification:

752 23

LOC classification:

QC495.3 .E25 2013

Online resources:

Contents:

Physics and chemistry -- Red -- Universe -- Orange -- Earth -- Yellow -- Plants -- Green -- Animals -- Blue -- Humans -- Violet.

Summary: Explores color's countless manifestations, providing insight into such phenomena as the visible spectrum, light absorption and reflection, how humans see color, how vision evolved, the sky, rainbows, colored gems, animal pigmentation, how animals use color to find mates and to protect themselves, and the use of color in human religion, ritual, design, navigation, communication, and personal identity.

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Includes bibliographical references (page [234]-235) and index.

Physics and chemistry -- Red -- Universe -- Orange -- Earth -- Yellow -- Plants -- Green -- Animals -- Blue -- Humans -- Violet.

Explores color's countless manifestations, providing insight into such phenomena as the visible spectrum, light absorption and reflection, how humans see color, how vision evolved, the sky, rainbows, colored gems, animal pigmentation, how animals use color to find mates and to protect themselves, and the use of color in human religion, ritual, design, navigation, communication, and personal identity.

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