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PDF [Download] The Secret Lives of Color Full Pages

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“Beautifully written and thoughtfully produced . . . Full of anecdotes and fascinating research,
this elegant compendium has all the answers.―—Nina Martyris, NPRâ€s Best Books of
2017“If you adore color, youâ€ll love The Secret Lives of Color. This passionate and
majestic compedium . . . will leave you bathed in the gorgeous optics of light.―—Elle
“A kaleidoscope of charming, discursive essays . . . A light and lively guide [that] offers plenty
of fresh clues for the brainâ€s colorful calculations.― —The Economist “Fascinating.―
—BuzzFeed“Gorgeous.― —The Guardian“The history of colors, it turns out, is the
story of science as well as art. Kassia St. Clairâ€s entertaining book brings them both into vivid
relief.―—The Wall Street Journal“The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair presents
readers with [an] opportunity to relish in otherwise mundane aspects of reality. . . . An engaging
mix of aesthetic analysis and optical science, it could make anyone a keen observer of our
kaleidoscopic world.―—Popular Science“Riveting . . . diligently researched . . . Whatever
your opinion of a shade, The Secret Lives of Color provides some illuminating perspectives on
it.―—Hyperallergic“A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox.
Every color has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thoughtprovoking.―—Simon
Garfield, New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type: A Book
About Fonts “St. Clair delivers a mix of science, humor, and art history in this collection of bitesized
essays on the cultural and social lore of colors. . . . Her sentences guarantee sustained
reading. . . . [Her] rhetoric beautifies the form of the brief essay.― —Publishers Weekly
“The Secret Lives of Color holds surprise and satisfaction at every striation of the
rainbow.― —Booklist “Brimming with facts, historical insights and curious tales.― —
Elle Decoration “Weirdly fascinating.― —Wired “Charming.― —The Financial
Times “Fascinating insights . . . a lexicon of colors, simultaneously revealing the cultural
attitudes that determine our responses to them.― —Country Living “What The Secret
Lives of Color offers really is, in some sense, a flash portrait of human civilization, a zigzagging
and unpredictable exploration of how significantly color has shaped histories and disciplines,
fueled empires, changed the nature of war and caused species to flourish or face extinction.― —
Chemistry World “A must for anyone interested in color [or] decorating, but also language,
culture and art.― —The Chromologist “A work of art in its own right, The Secret Lives Of

Color is a beautiful tactile book.― —The Pool“St. Clair serves up a chromatic buffet.― —
NatureKassia St. Clairis a freelance journalist