Submitted by lluncheon on Tue, 2013-11-19 12:44
Jude Stewart’s veritable explosion of historical facts, sayings, stories, cultural perspectives, and quotations about twelve colors, while literary, is not for the linear thinker. ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book about Color (Bloomsbury, $22) may be read chapter-by-chapter, but is also meant to be read like a Venn diagram or a flow chart, with the focus on the connections between colors and on the margin notes, which inform readers about saffron yellow, shocking pink, and purple prose; for example. If you ever pondered how fluid substances, visually experienced, could ever effectively be described with words, this is the book for you.