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

222 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction art history science informative slow-paced

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Before 1856, the color in our lives -- the reds, blues, and blacks of clothing, paint, and print -- came from insects or mollusks, roots or leaves; and dyeing was painstaking and expensive. But in 1856 eighteen-year-old English chemist William Per...

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