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What Is Color?

50 Questions and Answers on the Science of Color
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In What Is Color? by Joann Eckstut and Arielle Eckstut, readers explore the fascinating science behind colour. The book delves into how colour is perceived, its role in nature, and its influence on culture and art. With engaging explanations and vivid examples, it offers a comprehensive look at the many facets of colour.
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You might enjoy this book if you're curious about the science and nature of colour, exploring its role in the natural world, human perception, and artistic expression. This book may appeal to you if you appreciate beautifully illustrated guides that combine science with insightful observations on everyday phenomena.

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Organized by 50 of the most essential questions about color across a variety of fields--physics, chemistry, biology, technology, and psychology--this book examines how and why we see color; how color relates to light; what the real primary colors are; how biology, language, and culture affect the colors that we see; and much more.

A comprehensive illustrated exploration of the fascinating science of color

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Arielle and Joann Eckstut, authors of The Secret Language of Color, offer a thorough, readable, and highly visual exploration of the science of color.

Organized by 50 of the most essential questions about color across a variety of fields—physics, chemistry, biology, technology, and psychology—this book examines how and why we see color; how color relates to light; what the real primary colors are; how biology, language, and culture affect the colors that we see; and much more.

Full of clear and elegant infographics, What Is Color? is a must-have for artists and designers, scientists, students, and decorators, and anyone else whose work or play involves color.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781419734519

Publisher: Abrams

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 April 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Abrams

Illustration: 200 colour illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 184.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 560g

Pages: 144

About the Author

Arielle Eckstut is the author of 10 books including The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published. She is also the cofounder of the Book Doctors, which helps get writers’ works published, and LittleMissMatched, a girls’ lifestyle brand. Joann Eckstut is an award-winning interior designer as well as one of America’s top color consultants. For the past 15 years, she has sat on the elite Interior Design Committee of the Color Association of the United States.

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