Finlay, Victoria. <br/><br/>
Color :  a natural history of the palette / 
Victoria Finlay. 
 - New York :  Ballantine Books,  2002. 
 - xii, 448 pages, [8] pages of plates :  illustrations (some color), maps ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-405) and index. 
<br/><br/>Preface: The beginning of the rainbow -- Introduction: The paintbox -- Ochre -- Black and brown -- White -- Red -- Orange -- Yellow -- Green -- Blue -- Indigo -- Violet -- Epilogue: The end of the rainbow. 
<br/><br/> In "Color, " a narrative history of the colors of the rainbow, author Finlay explores the physical materials that color the world, such as lapis and insectUs blood, as well as the social and political meanings that color has carried throughout time. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0345444302 9780345444301 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Finlay, Victoria--Travel.<br/>Finlay, Victoria.<br/>Finlay, Victoria--Voyages.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Colors--History.<br/>Colors--Social aspects.<br/>Colors.<br/>Colors--Social aspects.<br/>Travel.<br/>Couleurs--Histoire.<br/>Couleurs--Aspect social.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>535.6  / FIN-C 2002 200687