Red grabs your attention. Today we associate red with danger; sex; anger and more; yet the colour was once so signiï¬cant that things which have a profound impact upon our lives were widely called red; even though they are often not red at all.In this book; Spike Bucklow looks for the reasons why red; of all the colours; has captured the imagination. The ï¬rst part considers materials that have produced red; from a shamanrsquo;s burial dressings of 34;000 years ago to todayrsquo;s digital screens. Red could be obtained from animal; vegetable and mineral matter but there were also the mysterious reds made by medieval alchemists and the high-fashion reds of the nineteenth century that drove the Chemical Revolution. The second part looks at earth; blood and ï¬re; and explores caves and goddesses; holy blood and national flags; metalwork and power grids.
2016-06-19 2016-06-19File Name: B01HARBXLA
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