Main entry:

Berrie, Barbara Hepburn, author. aut

Title & Author:

Pigments / Barbara H. Berrie, Caroline Fowler, Karin Leonhard, Ittai Weinryb.

Publication:

Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2024]
©2024

Description:

167 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Series:

Art/Work

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-160) and index.
Pigment worlds : an introduction / Caroline Fowler and Ittai Weinryb -- Pigment histories in European painting / Karin Leonhard -- Pigment in science / Barbara H.Berrie -- Case studies in pigments. Pigments in Baroque and Rococco European painters' palettes / David Bomford -- Color engenders life : pigment and process in prehistoric rock art / Carolyn E. Boyd -- Transmedial simulations : bronze corrosions and copper-based pigments in Chinese art / Quincy Ngan -- "All of it green, which is a pleasure to look at" : the uses of green pigment in South American artistic practices / Gabriela Siracusano -- Pigmenting the skin : when spice makes race / Anne Lafont.

Summary:

"A concise illustrated history of one of art's most important and elusive elements. Over the millennia, humans have used pigments to decorate, narrate, and instruct. Charred bone, ground earth, stones, bugs, and blood were the first pigments. New pigments were manufactured by simple processes such as corrosion and calcination until the Industrial Revolution introduced colors outside the spectrum of the natural world. Pigments brings together leading art historians and conservators to trace the history of the materials used to create color and their invention across diverse cultures and time periods. This richly illustrated book features incisive historical essays and case studies that shed light on the many forms of pigments-the organic and inorganic; the edible and the toxic; and those that are more precious than gold. It shows how pigments were as central to the earliest art forms and global trade networks as they are to commerce, ornamentation, and artistic expression today. The book reveals the innate instability and mutability of most pigments and discusses how few artworks or objects look as they did when they were first created. From cave paintings to contemporary art, Pigments demonstrates how a material understanding of color opens new perspectives on visual culture and the history of art."--Provided by publisher.

Biographical note:

Barbara H. Berrie is senior conservation scientist and head of the Department of Scientific Research at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Caroline Fowler is Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts. Karin Leonhard is professor of art history at the University of Konstanz in Germany. Ittai Weinryb is associate professor of art history at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City.

ISBN:

9780691223711 (pbk.)
0691223718 (pbk.)
(ebook)
9780691256627

Subject:

Pigments.
Pigments History.
Paint materials History.
Art History.
Painting History.
Pigments Preservation History.
Pigments Histoire.
Peinture (Produit chimique) Constituants Histoire.
Art Histoire.
Peinture Histoire.
pigments.
art history.

Added entries:

Fowler, Caroline O., author.
Leonhard, Karin, author.
Weinryb, Ittai, author.
Art/Work (Series)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320222
Call No.: 320222
Copy: 1
Status: Available