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Spike Bucklow The Alchemy of Paint (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Book Title
- The Alchemy of Paint
- EAN
- 9780714531724
- ISBN
- 9780714531724
- Release Date
- 06/30/2009
- ISBN-10
- 0714531723
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Genre
- Arts & Photography
- Title
- The Alchemy of Paint
- Release Year
- 2009
- Subtitle
- Art, Science and Secrets from the Middle Ages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Boyars Publishers, LTD., MARION
ISBN-10
0714531723
ISBN-13
9780714531724
eBay Product ID (ePID)
73066472
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Publication Name
Alchemy of Paint : Art, Science and Secrets from the Middle Ages
Language
English
Subject
Folklore & Mythology, History / Medieval, Techniques / Color
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2009-024496
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
751.2
Synopsis
The Alchemy of Paint is a critique of the modern world, which Spike Bucklow sees as the product of seventeenth-century ideas about science. In modern times, we have divorced color from its origins, using it for commercial advantage. Spike Bucklow shows us how in medieval times, color had mystical significance far beyond the enjoyment of shade and hue. Each chapter demonstrates the mindset of medieval Europe and is devoted to just one color, acknowledging its connections with life in the pre-modern world. Colors examined and explained in detail include a midnight blue called ultramarine, an opaque red called vermilion, a multitude of colors made from metals, a transparent red called dragonsblood, and, finally, gold. Today, "scarlet" describes a color, but it was originally a type of cloth. Henry VI's wardrobe accounts from 1438 to 1489 show that his cheapest scarlet was 14.2s.6d. and that scarlets could fetch up to twice that price. In the fifteenth century, a mid-priced scarlet cost more than two thousand kilos of cheese or one thousand liters of wine. This expense accounts for the custom of giving important visitors the "red carpet treatment." The book looks at how color was "read" in the Middle Ages and returns to materials to look at the hidden meaning of the artists' version of the philosopher's stone. The penultimate chapter considers why everyone has always loved gold. Spike Bucklow is a conservation scientist working with oil paintings at the Hamilton Kerr Institute in Cambridge., The Alchemy of Paint examines pre-modern artists' recipes for a handful of pigments, including lapis lazuli, gold and vermilion. The author was, until 2022, Director of Research at the Hamilton Kerr Institute and Professor of Material Culture at the University of Cambridge. The book has become a recognised text in the undergraduate and postgraduate teaching of history, art history and the history of science. Historic pigment recipes - many of which were reconstructed by the author - provide evidence that practicing craftspeople had a detailed grasp of the sophisticated physical and cosmological theories that defined reality in pre-modern Europe. As such, the book is an in-depth, and heavily-referenced, primer for the pre-modern European world-view. For example, the chapter on the purification of lapis lazuli - to make ultramarine - is a practical example of how so-called Aristotelian four-element theory helped people engage productively with the material world. The first half of the book shows how theories - like the four elements, hylomorphism, emanation, etc - were reflected in practice in recipes that 'worked', as well as in recipes that 'did not work' - like dragonsblood and mercury blue - but were nonetheless faithfully repeated. The second half of the book revisits materials - including vermilion and gold - to show that widely-recognised multi-levelled meanings were inherent in materials. Physical materials could therefore contribute metaphysical meanings to the mainly religious objects that incorporated them.
LC Classification Number
N7432.7
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