Chromorama

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Why are pencils yellow and white goods white? Why is black the color of mourning? What connects Queen Victoria's mauve gown and Michelle Obama's yellow dress?In Chromorama, acclaim ed graphic designer Riccardo Falcinelli delves deep into the history of color to show how it has shaped the modern gaze. With over four hundred illustrations throughout and with examples ranging widely across art and culture - from the novels of Gustave Flaubert to The Simpsons, from Byzantine jewellery to misshapen fruit, from Mondrian to Hitchcock's thrillers - Falcinelli traces the evolution of our long relationship with color, and how first the industrial revolution, and then the dawn of the internet age, changed it forever. Show more