TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finlay,Victoria
TI  - Color: a natural history of the palette 
SN  - 0812971426 (pbk.): 
AV  - ND1488  .F55 2004
PY  - 2004///, c2002
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House Trade Paperbacks
KW  - Finlay, Victoria
KW  - Colors
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Color in art
N1  - "The work was originally published in slightly different form as Color by Hodder and Stoughton, a division of Hodder Headline, London, in 2002, and in hardcover by Ballantine Books, ... New York, in 2003." -- T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references (p. 396-405) and index; The beginning of the rainbow -- The paintbox -- Ochre -- Black and whilte -- White -- Red -- Orange -- Yellow -- green -- Blue -- Indigo -- Violet -- The end of rainbow
N2  - Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors.For example: Cleopatra used saffron--a source of the color yellow--for seduction. Extracted from an Afghan mine, the blue "ultramarine" paint used by Michelangelo was so expensive he couldn't afford to buy it himself. Since ancient times, carmine red--still found in lipsticks and Cherry Coke today--has come from the blood of insects. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc
ER  -