{"product_id":"a-cultural-history-of-color-in-antiquity-9781350459793","title":"A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Cultural History of Color in Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e covers the period 3000 BCE to 500 CE. Although the smooth, white marbles of Classical sculpture and architecture lull us into thinking that the color world of the ancient Greeks and Romans was restrained and monochromatic, nothing could be further from the truth. Classical archaeologists are rapidly uncovering and restoring the vivid, polychrome nature of the ancient built environment. At the same time, new understandings of ancient color cognition and language have unlocked insights into the ways  often unfamiliar and strange to us  that ancient peoples thought and spoke about color.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColor shapes an individual's experience of the world and also how society gives particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6 volume set of the \u003ci\u003eCultural History of Color\u003c\/i\u003e examines how color has been created, traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5000 years. The themes covered in each volume are color philosophy and science; col\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885448081751,"sku":"9781350459793","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350459793.jpg?v=1722536434","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-cultural-history-of-color-in-antiquity-9781350459793","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}