The Alchemy of Paint: Art, Science and Secrets from the Middle Ages by Spike Bucklow

The Alchemy of Paint: Art, Science and Secrets from the Middle Ages

Spike Bucklow

336 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced

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The Alchemy of Paint is a critique of the modern world, which Spike Bucklow sees as the product of seventeenth-century ideas about science. In modern times, we have divorced color from its origins, using it for commercial advantage. Spike Bucklow ...

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