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"..succinct and elegantly structured new survey of Western painting. Ball pitches his learning just right between academic history and a highly readable series of anecdotes and biographical sketches."
Daily Mail |
"Full of fascinating vignettes which provide unexpected vistas on the relation between art and technology. An almost encyclopaedic survey of colour in art· invigorating and rewarding."
Sunday Telegraph |
"Brilliant· in every sense. Ball's book is the volume that has been missing from my library."
Guardian |
"Scattered with attractive particles, sparkles with redolent names (vermilion, orpiment, lapis lazuli)· A solid, well-researched compendium of information."
Times Literary Supplement |
"An excellent history of pigments, paints and dyes [that] will undoubtedly change the way readers view pictures in galleries. A fascinatingly different account of the history of art."
Scotland on Sunday |
"Brings the mysterious subject of colour wonderfully alive. Quite literally an eye-opener."
The Economist |
"Ball makes a valid case that those of us who are ignorant of the evolution, science and theory of color know a good deal less about art than we think we do."
Washington Post |
"'Bright Earth' is a treasure of anecdote and information, surveying not only the history of art, the growth of industries it has created, and the lives of the artists who have served it, but also the physics of light and the physiology of the eye."
San Jose Mercury |
"An intriguing synthesis of art and science. What Ball does in 'Bright Earth' is what artists have always sought to do: open our eyes."
Time |
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