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书名：The Secret Lives of Color色彩的秘密生活豆瓣推荐
作者：Kassia St Clair
出版社名称：Penguin Books
出版时间：2017
语种：英语
ISBN：9780143131144
商品尺寸：2.3 x 14 x 21.8 cm
包装：精装
页数：320（以实物为准）

“Beautifully written and thoughtfully produced . . . Full of anecdotes and fascinating research, this elegant compendium has all the answers.”—Nina Martyris, NPR’s Best Books of 2017

文字优美……满是引人入胜的色彩轶事和历史考据。这本优雅的色彩宝典包含了你对色彩的疑问的全部答案。——美国国家公共电台（NPR）年度好书评语

不仅仅是色彩的历史，也是有关科学与艺术的故事。卡西亚·圣克莱尔这本富有趣味的书真正地将二者变得生动、轻松。——《华尔街日报》

“St. Clair delivers a mix of science, humor, and art history in this collection of bite-sized essays on the cultural and social lore of colors. . . . Her sentences guarantee sustained reading. . . . [Her] rhetoric beautifies the form of the brief essay.”—Publishers Weekly

圣克莱尔这一系列有关色彩文化与社会的秘史，兼具科学性、幽默感和艺术史考据性。——《出版人周刊》

“St. Clair serves up a chromatic buffet.”—Nature

一席色彩的自助盛宴。——《Nature》杂志

什么颜色令画家为其举行盛大的葬礼？

什么颜色是中产阶级的代表色？

什么颜色是导致凡·高的《向日葵》逐渐枯萎、褪色的罪魁祸首？

《色彩的秘密生活》揭秘色彩背后的奇闻逸事：从人类文明、科学艺术到坊间八卦，讲述75段引人入胜的色彩简史！

※一部色彩改变世界的历史：石灰白预防鼠疫，卡其色改变了战争，粉色降低罪犯的攻击性……

※一部如彩虹般绚烂的色彩宝典：10大色系，75种颜色，从寻常的金黄到鲜为人知的天芥紫，将每种颜色的历史娓娓道来！

※一部备受推荐的榜单书：被评为美国国家公共电台年度好书、英国BBC诚意推荐好书，是《纽约时报》《星期日泰晤士报》等媒体的榜单书。

《色彩的秘密生活》讲述了75种迷人的颜色及其不同寻常的故事。

从金发到红发，从改变了战争方式的棕色到保护人类免受鼠疫之害的白色，从毕加索的“蓝色时期”到拉斯科洞窟壁上的木炭画，从朋克的酸性黄到与圣徒同名的凯利绿……在历史长河中，这些令人惊异的故事就像其颜色本身一样熠熠生辉。

A dazzling gift, the unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume.

“Beautifully written . . . Full of anecdotes and fascinating research, this elegant compendium has all the answers.” —NPR, Best Books of 2017

The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes, and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso’s blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history.

In this book, Kassia St. Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colors and where they come from (whether Van Gogh’s chrome yellow sunflowers or punk’s fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilization. Across fashion and politics, art and war, the secret lives of color tell the vivid story of our culture.

卡西亚·圣克莱尔（Kassia St Clair），英国自由撰稿人、作家。

在牛津和布里斯托尔学习女性服装史和化妆史，毕业后长期为《经济学人》《家园与花园》《新政治家》撰写文章，也在英国广播公司（BBC）、美国国家公共电台（NPR）等电台做节目，在达拉斯艺术博物馆、维多利亚和艾伯特博物馆等博物馆开设讲座，所述均有关色彩、设计、织物与文化史。

著有《色彩的秘密生活》《金线：织物如何改变世界》，均为各大媒体的年度好书、榜单书。

Kassia St. Clair is a freelance journalist and author based in London. She graduated from Bristol University with a first-class honors degree in history in 2007 and went on to do a master’s degree at Oxford. There she wrote her dissertation on women’s masquerade costumes during the eighteenth century and graduated with distinction. She has since written about design and culture for publications including The Economist, House & Garden, Quartz, and the New Statesman. She has had a column about color in Elle Decoration since 2013 and is a former assistant books and arts editor for The Economist.