The secret language of color : science, nature, history, culture, beauty of red, orange, yellow, green, blue & violet / Joann Eckstut and Arielle Eckstut.

By:

Eckstut, Joann [author.]

Contributor(s):

Eckstut, Arielle [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers : Distributed by Workman Pub., [2013]Description: 240 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781579129491
1579129498
9781603763523 (pbk.)
160376352X (pbk.)

Subject(s):

Color -- Popular works

DDC classification:

535.6 23

Online resources:

Contents:

Physics and chemistry -- Red -- Universe -- Orange -- Earth -- Yellow -- Plants -- Green -- Animals -- Blue -- Humans -- Violet.

Summary: Explores color's countless manifestations, providing insight into such phenomena as the visible spectrum, light absorption and reflection, how humans see color, how vision evolved, the sky, rainbows, colored gems, animal pigmentation, how animals use color to find mates and to protect themselves, and the use of color in human religion, ritual, design, navigation, communication, and personal identity.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOK	Ashok Goel Library, Rishihood University General stacks	School of Creativity	535.6 ECK (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		RU00001325

Includes bibliographical references (page [234]-235) and index.

Physics and chemistry -- Red -- Universe -- Orange -- Earth -- Yellow -- Plants -- Green -- Animals -- Blue -- Humans -- Violet.

Explores color's countless manifestations, providing insight into such phenomena as the visible spectrum, light absorption and reflection, how humans see color, how vision evolved, the sky, rainbows, colored gems, animal pigmentation, how animals use color to find mates and to protect themselves, and the use of color in human religion, ritual, design, navigation, communication, and personal identity.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.