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An atlas of rare & familiar colour

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The Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums possesses over 2500 of the world's rarest pigments. Visually and anthropologically excavating the extraordinary collection, Atelier Editions' monograph examines the contained artefacts' providence, composition, symbology and application. Whilst simultaneously exploring the larger field of chromatics, utilising a variety of theoretical frameworks to interpret the collection anew. An introduction to the monograph is authored by Straus Center Director Dr. Narayan Khandekar.

Titre:
An atlas of rare and familiar colour

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The Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums possesses over 2500 of the world's rarest pigments. Visually and anthropologically excavating the extraordinary collection, Atelier Editions' monograph examines the contained artefacts' providence, composition, symbology and application. Whilst simultaneously exploring the larger field of chromatics, utilising a variety of theoretical frameworks to interpret the collection anew. An introduction to the monograph is authored by Straus Center Director Dr. Narayan Khandekar.

Titre:
Collecting colour

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In this book Narayan Khandekar, director of the Straus Center, takes us on a tour of the amazing universe of the Forbes Pigment Collection, which at present is kept in the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at Harvard University. This collection contains over three thousand natural and synthetic colouring agents. Khandekar shows the origins of the pigments and their cultural uses. At the same time, he demonstrates that pigments are essential building blocks of the unique nature of a work of art. Explore the unique collection through the essay and the many images in this book. Printed with high pigment ink.