What Is Color?
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What Is Color?
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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
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.
Book Details
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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