A Red Like No Other: How Cochineal Colored the World
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (971 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0847846431 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Martha Jones said From van dyke to Rembrandt to textiles and money enterprises cochineal touches us all.. A beautiful coffee table book. It presents the debut of cochineal red with detailed text and beautiful pictures. Art selected to show the red in famous works are fresh and are pictures not normally used. This book in concert with "the perfect red" which is a world history title gives Cochineals complete story.. "What a beautiful book! I'm doing research on cochineal and have" according to OVH. What a beautiful book! I'm doing research on cochineal and have been gathering and reading historical and critical sources. If you're interested in history, aesthetics, or even entomology, this is a beautifully edited and illustrated book.. rebecca rainey said Beautiful illustrations. Great information. Beautiful illustrations. Great information. Wonderful book. Gave a copy to a friend who is museum docent & textile expert. She was also impressed with publication.
Editor and author Carmella Padilla and editor and art historian Barbara Anderson are independent curators of the related exhibition. . Other essay contributors include Elena Phipps, former conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Jo Kirby, Senior Conservation Scientist Emeritus at the National Gallery, London; and Mary Miller, Sterling Professor of the History of Art at Yale University
El Greco, Tintoretto, Velázquez, van Dyck, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and van Gogh used it, as did Spanish fashion icon Mariano Fortuny. "Page through A Red Like No Other, and you're stuck again and again with astonishment at the sumptuous full-page images of clothing made with cochineal--at the radiant beauty of a salmon silk cloak trimmed in silver from 16th century France, a vibrant red wool surcoat from 19th century Japan, a pair of sturdily exquisite red silk shoes with gold tracery from 18th century Spain and the elegant haute couture Eleanora dress that designer Mariano Fortuny created in the 1930s for a favorite Italian actress." -THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE"You will never look at red in the same way again. This beautiful new volume covers the color red in art, crafts, fashion, design, power, royalty, religion and interiors, with 350 color illustrations.A
El Greco, Tintoretto, Velázquez, van Dyck, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and van Gogh used it, as did Spanish fashion icon Mariano Fortuny. Painters and other artists engaged in a quest for the source of the perfect red that conveyed the luxury, spirit, and substance of living. The images show how the colorant touched cultures and artists worldwide, including pre-Columbian weavers, painters of Spain’s Golden Age, Middle Eastern rug makers, and Navajo weavers. The ensuing global spread of American cochineal changed art, culture, science, and trade for centuries. A Red Like No Other follows the precious bug juice from Mexico to Europe and beyond as it insinuated itself into all forms of art, politics, and commerce to color the world in vivid red hues. Today contemporary artists and designers continue to embrace the colorant for its beauty and meaning. An international team of more than forty scholars and experts brings a wide spectrum of original research on the symbolic meaning of red, the material meaning of cochineal in art and trade, and the history of the artists driven to find the perfect red.. The captivating story of the pursuit of the most powerful color. A global symbol of power, wealth, mystery, and sexuality, red has seduced viewers and inspired artists for millennia. In the 1520s, Spanish explorers found it in the grand Aztec markets—in a dye derived from the cochineal insect