题 目：Pigments (ART/WORK) / 颜料（艺术/创作）

作 者：Barbara H. Berrie

出 版：Princeton University Press ，2024

装 帧：平装，176页

尺 寸：18.4*23.5 cm

艺术最重要和最难以捉摸的元素

之一的简明图解历史 几千年来，人类一直使用颜料来装饰、叙述和指导。烧焦的骨头、磨碎的泥土、石头、虫子和血液是最早的颜料。新的颜料是通过腐蚀和煅烧等简单的工艺制造的，直到工业革命引入了自然界光谱之外的颜色。Pigments 汇集了领先的艺术史学家和保护学家，追溯用于创造色彩的材料的历史及其在不同文化和时期的发明。这本插图丰富的书以精辟的历史论文和案例研究为特色，阐明了多种形式的颜料——有机颜料和无机颜料;可食用的和有毒的;以及那些比金子更珍贵的。它展示了颜料如何与今天的商业、装饰和艺术表达一样，成为最早的艺术形式和全球贸易网络的核心。这本书揭示了大多数颜料固有的不稳定性和可变性，并讨论了很少有艺术品或物体看起来与它们最初创作时一样。

从洞穴壁画到当代艺术，颜料展示了材料对色彩的理解如何为视觉文化和艺术史开辟新的视角。

A concise illustrated history of one of art’s most important and elusive elements

Over the millennia, humans have used pigments to decorate, narrate, and instruct. Charred bone, ground earth, stones, bugs, and blood were the first pigments. New pigments were manufactured by simple processes such as corrosion and calcination until the Industrial Revolution introduced colors outside the spectrum of the natural world. Pigments brings together leading art historians and conservators to trace the history of the materials used to create color and their invention across diverse cultures and time periods. This richly illustrated book features incisive historical essays and case studies that shed light on the many forms of pigments—the organic and inorganic; the edible and the toxic; and those that are more precious than gold. It shows how pigments were as central to the earliest art forms and global trade networks as they are to commerce, ornamentation, and artistic expression today. The book reveals the innate instability and mutability of most pigments and discusses how few artworks or objects look as they did when they were first created.

From cave paintings to contemporary art, Pigments demonstrates how a material understanding of color opens new perspectives on visual culture and the history of art.