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A Dictionary of Colour

Ian Paterson

  • Format: Book

  • Pages: 520

  • Publisher: Thorogood

  • Date Published: Sep 2003

  • Stock Code: 34760

  • Binding: Hardback

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This dictionary is the first of its kind: a treasury of colour words and phrases, a comprehensive resource for exploring every aspect of colour and it many applications across the disciplines and through the ages.

Words are drawn from many different worlds including art, artists, craft and design, painting, printing and sculpture, the decorative arts, gems, fashion, textiles, cosmetics, physics, maths, astronomy, chemistry, dyes, colourants, paints, biology, geography, geology, minerals, history, art history, social history, religion, philosophy, heraldry, mythology and symbolism, language, linguistics, grammar, slang, literature (including the Bible and Shakespeare), music, theatre, photography, television and film, psychology and human behaviour, education, politics, commerce, economics, finance, law, travel, war, vision and colour-blindness, medicine, drugs and colour therapy, food and drink, colour theory and many others.

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