James Fox is Director of Studies in History of Art at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and a BAFTA-nominated broadcaster. He is the author of The World According to Colour: A Cultural History, which was chosen as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Spectator. His many acclaimed BBC television documentaries include programmes about British art, Japanese culture, the connections between art and nature, and the history of colour. He is also an advisor to the Loewe Craft Foundation and a Trustee of the Marchmont Makers Foundation, which supports arts and crafts practitioners across the Scottish Borders and beyond, aiming to inspire creativity across the arts, crafts, business and social enterprise.
A book to brighten the dullest days
*The Times (Books of the Year)*
A brilliantly fluent and readable history of colour
*Spectator (Books of the Year)*
Fairly shimmers with Fox's eye for arresting facts and
anecdotes
*Times Literary Supplement*
Intelligent, vividly written ... I'm going to buy three copies
*The Times*
Flits with enthusiasm and lightly worn learning from Bronze Age
gold-workers to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein
*Daily Telegraph (Books of the Year)*
Colour becomes a philosophical feast - astrophysics, the origins of
civilisation, a palette of moral associations
*New Statesman (Books of the Year)*
A manual to navigate and enjoy the extraordinary design of the
world around us
*Mail on Sunday*
Leads down some wonderful rabbit holes
*Financial Times*
A book that makes you want to paint
*BBC History Magazine*
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