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Author: Philip Ball
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Imprint: Vintage
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.344kg
ISBN: 9780099507130
ISBN 10: 0099507137
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 01 May 2008
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
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
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 *
Scattered with attractive particles, sparkles with redolent names... A solid, well-researched compendium of information * TLS * Full of fascinating vignettes. Philip Ball writes engagingly on complicated topics * Sunday Telegraph * 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 * Brings the mysterious subject of colour wonderfully alive. Quite literally an eye-opener * Economist * Brilliant...in every sense. Ball's book is the volume that has been missing from my library * Guardian *
Author Information
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.
