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Kassia St. Clair is a freelance writer and a former assistant books and arts editor at The Economist, and writes regularly for Elle Decoration. Her popular column on color there sparked the idea for this book. www.kassiastclair.com PENGUIN BOOKS An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 375 Hudson Street New York, New York 10014 penguin.com First published in Great Britain by John Murray (Publishers), an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. Published by arrangement with Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. Published in Penguin Books 2017 Copyright © 2016 by Kassia St. Clair Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue to publish books for every reader. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Names: St. Clair, Kassia, author. Title: The secret lives of color / Kassia St. Clair. Description: New York : Penguin Books, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017014300 | ISBN 9780143131144 (hardback) Subjects: LCSH: Color—Psychological aspects—History. | Color—Social aspects—History. | Symbolism of colors—History. | BISAC: ART / History General. | ART Color Theory. | ART Techniques Color. Classification: LCC BF789.C7 S64 2017 | DDC 155.9/1145—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017014300 Version_1 For Fallulah The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice (1851–3) Contents About the Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Preface Color vision How we see Simple arithmetic On light Building the palette Artists and their pigments Vintage paint charts Mapping color Chromophilia, chromophobia Politics of color Colorful language Do words shape the shades we see? Lead white Ivory Silver Whitewash Isabelline Chalk Beige Blonde Lead-tin yellow Indian yellow Acid yellow Naples yellow Chrome yellow Gamboge Orpiment Imperial yellow Gold Dutch orange Saffron Amber Ginger Minium Nude Baker-Miller pink Mountbatten pink Puce Fuchsia Shocking pink Fluorescent pink Amaranth Scarlet Cochineal Vermilion Rosso corsa Hematite Madder Dragon’s blood Tyrian purple Archil Magenta Mauve Heliotrope Violet Ultramarine Cobalt Indigo Prussian blue Egyptian blue Woad Electric blue Cerulean Verdigris Absinthe Emerald Kelly green Scheele’s green Terre verte Avocado Celadon

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