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File Size: 2376 KB
Print Length: 448 pages
Publisher: Random House (December 18, 2007)
Publication Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
ASIN: B000XUBDIA
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This review pertains ONLY to the kindle edition. This is cheap but very defective! NO ILLUSTRATIONS. The notes are not linked from the text, and in the Notes section, the numbers are omitted. So figuring out which note goes with which part of the text is your challenge.
I generally love this type of non-fiction... anecdotes, quirky information, etc. I even really liked this same author's book on "Jewels". Unfortunately this book had too much speculation posed as fact as well as the author's actions chronicled -- and many of the actions made me question her common sense. Examples: In the chapter on Ochre she went to a library where she was supposed to call to have the reference material brought out. She states she left without calling because they were "secret"... "and had been put into the safekeeping of the museum, for whenever Aboriginal elders or scholars want to consult them. It wasn't right for me to even try to see them, I decided." (Is she not a scholar? And why put us through the description of the library for no payoff?) In the chapter on red, when she visits a mine she stirs a pool of mercury with her bare hands (She tells us she had to take off her rings because they would melt...). In the chapter on orange, she speculates about Martinengo's (Stradivarius' mentor) journey from Spain to Cremona and how he might have traveled here or there seeing the various markets and spices. I realize this was a way to showcase possible ingredients used in the varnish BUT without a careful read it comes across as fact. For all I know, the fellow traveled straight to Cremona and had a cousin in the spice trade.... The point is, she presents speculation as fact. (And really, she tried staining wood with stale urine?)
This book was okay - not great, but not boring either. I thought this would be a history of the different colors but it was more a travelogue with historical snippets thrown in. I just noticed on looking it up on Amazon that the British version of this is subtitled Travels through the Paintbox, whereas the American version is subtitled A Natural History of the Palette. Unsure why they changed that when it crossed the pond, as the UK version more clearly states what the book is about. I found the historical elements to be far more interesting and wish that the book had been more about that - those were the parts of the chapters I was always more intrigued by. As an artist myself, I am interested in learning as much about art history as I can.Whenever the author switched to talking about her travels and tourist activities (because they did not read as serious research trips ever - has this woman ever used the internet to research her destinations or even called any people in the country she's going to ahead of time?!). She mentioned using out of date travel books and used travel info from 10 years prior at one point to guide her travels. It just felt...shoddy for what was purported to be scholarly, research trips.I was a bit put off by some of the dumb things she did in the name of "researching" her book - she traveled to Afghanistan right after 9/11, completely refusing to heed well-earned warnings about traveling there. She somehow managed to finagle a visa meant for people working with NGOs in the region at the time, which to me just came across as immature and really selfish. As a reader, I could care less about how much she had to hike to get to a lapus lazuli mine or how she supposedly charmed the mine workers as the only white woman they'd seen. That literally had nothing to do with the history of the color blue that the chapter was supposed to be about. Anytime her writing veered into her recounting her travels it just felt self-indulgent and more like a diary ("Dear Diary, I couldn't find any coffee this morning because the whole country was in mourning over the just deceased leader. I couldn't go to the place I wanted and it was so annoying."). I was also taken aback by some of her glaring ignorance (you didn't bother to look up what an indigo plant looked like before you left to try to see one in India?) and just silly musings - it read sometimes like I was reading something by a teenager rather than an supposedly educated adult. At one point, she's trying to "outwit" some guards at an archaeological site to get a look at some ancient dying vats by pretending to "look dreamily out at the ocean" and then running over old columns when they looked the other way. If that is what you traveled so far to see, why wouldn't you call ahead and get access with a guide to a part that is usually not accessible to the general public? There was time after time mentioned where she showed up to a place and then was surprised by not being able to get in or not being able to see what she wanted or she'd arrived just before closing time.I'm giving this 3 stars as the historical information was actually really good and very interesting, and I liked all the extra information in the extensive notes in the back. If she had just stuck to the history, I would have enjoyed this a lot more. All the stories and actual historical info kept me intrigued, but the book always lagged as soon as she started talking about all the details of her travels.
I love art history books but am aware that many have better use, curing insomnia. Although this book was more and two hundred pages, it was a wonderful, well researched, attention grabbing narrative about the history of color, the difference between pigment and dye , the search for "forgotten" recipes and human sentiment around the globe to color. Even the epilogue and bibliography are useful and easy to follow.
The kindle version of this book -- allegedly about the world's dazzling colors -- is in BLACK & WHITE!!!! Desperately trying to get my money back.
A history of many famous dyes and pigments, as you'd expect. The individual stories are organized by dye and often involve the author's personal trips to places like Afghanistan, just in time to experience the weird period when the Taliban tolerated outsiders and hadn't yet made the news for destroying ancient statues. I found the storytelling a little disjointed sometimes, and the author even admits having felt pressured to write herself into the book to make it into a narrative. Still, the book is pretty interesting and entertaining. The interspersed narrative isn't all bad, either; I liked reading for instance about modern dye-makers trying to recreate ancient favorites like Tyrian purple and cochineal red, and the industrial processes behind them. There's also definitely a fiction story to be told in the adventures of some of the people Finlay talks about, like the adventurer who risked death to steal some beetle-infested cactus chunks. I like reading about the development of technologies and how those interact with the larger historical picture, and this book provides that kind of info. Even little details like the story of Napoleon's arsenic-green wallpaper help make this book worthwhile.
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