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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This radiantly beautiful book takes us on a journey through the methods and devices used in Western cultures to catalogue colours developed since the 15th century by doctors, naturalists, dyers and painters."
---Jad Adams, The Art Newspaper"There is a riot of colour on almost every page, in a stunning array that illuminates the eye."
---Elizabeth Fitzherbert, The Lady"In
Color Charts: A History, French author Anne Varichon reveals the inventive and poetic ways in which colour has been collectively understood, telling the story of the transformation from pigment makers and craftworkers, dependent on their charts, to the age of synthetic colour, through which the ‘western world began to become colourful, and finally, colourful for everyone’."
---Alexander James, Financial Times