Bright Earth by Philip Ball

Bright Earth by Philip Ball

Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from?

Brilliant..in every sense. Ball's book is the volume that has been missing from my library * Guardian *
Brings the mysterious subject of colour wonderfully alive. Quite literally an eye-opener * Economist *
A succinct and elegantly structured new survey of Western painting. Ball pitches his learning just right between academic history and a highly readable series of anecdotes and biographical sketches * Daily Mail *
Full of fascinating vignettes. Philip Ball writes engagingly on complicated topics * Sunday Telegraph *
Scattered with attractive particles, sparkles with redolent names... A solid, well-researched compendium of information * TLS *

Philip Ball writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor for physical sciences at Nature. His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena, and include Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books), The Music Instinct, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, Serving The Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Science Under Hitler and Invisible: The history of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics.

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ISBN 13	9780099507130
ISBN 10	0099507137
Title	Bright Earth
Author	Philip Ball
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2008-05-01
Number of pages	448
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.