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Has pink always been feminine and blue masculine? Why does orange whet our appetite? Why do we feel blue? Shades of colour accompany our lives and shape our language: we become green with envy, or remove our rose-tinted spectacles. But how did colours acquire these associations? In this beautiful coffee table book, we traverse the colour spectrum with 150 remarkable stories of our experience, understanding and theories of colour. With insights from art, nature, psychology and science, this is an amusing, entertaining, and vibrant journey through the cultural history of colour. SELLING POINTS: . Fascinating, funny and informative: a vibrant cultural history of colour . 150 colour facts from art and nature, colour psychology and science . A beautiful coffee table book distinguished by its original photography and modern graphic design

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9783961713653

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Interesting...useful for photographers as a reference book. - Amateur Photographer

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Joanna Zoelzer was born in Katowice/Poland and studied graphic design at the Faber-Castell Academy in Stein near Nuremberg. She discovered her fascination for colour early on and has been working intensively on the subject ever since. She works as a freelance graphic designer, typographer and artist and lives in Ismaning near Munich.

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