Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World by Simon Garfield

Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World

Simon Garfield

240 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction art history science informative slow-paced

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"By bringing Perkin into the open and documenting his life and work, Garfield has done a service to history."--Chicago Tribune " A]n inviting cocktail of Perkin biography, account of the dye industry and where it led, and social and cultural histo...

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