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Victoria Finlay _ Color: A Natural History of
Emily Kame Kngwarreye
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Victoria Finlay _ Color: A Natural History of
Chauvet Cave: The Discovery of the World's Oldest Paintings, Jean-Marie Chauvet
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Victoria Finlay _ Color: A Natural History of
The best way I've found of understanding this is to think not so much of something "being" a color but of it "doing" a color.
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Victoria Finlay _ Color: A Natural History of
When our eyes see the whole range of visible light together, they read it as "white." When some of the wavelengths are missing, they see it as "colored.
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The use of natural pigments is similarly embodied in the Orthodox teaching that humanity-like all Creation-was created pure but not perfect, and the purpose of being born is to reach your true potential."
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White paint can be made of many things. It can come from chalk or zinc, barium or rice, or from little fossilized sea creatures in limestone graves. The Dutch artist Jan Vermeer even made some of his luminescent whites with a recipe that included alabaster and quartz-in lumps that took the light reflected into the painting and made it dance.3
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Art history is so often about looking at the people who made the art; but I realized at that moment there were also stories to be told about the people who made the things that made the art. My
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Victoria Finlay _ Color: A Natural History of
But color-like sound and scent-is just an invention of the human mind responding to waves and particles that are moving in particular patterns through the universe-and poets should not thank nature but themselves for the beauty and the rainbows they see around them. While
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Victoria Finlay _ Jewels: A Secret History
Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.
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Victoria Finlay _ Jewels: A Secret History
The Jewish historian Hannah Arendt, in her book about the trial of Nazi administrator Adolf Eichmann, observes that in many cases the Nazi camps were run by ordinary bureaucrats: the evil was astonishing in its banality.
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Victoria Finlay _ Jewels: A Secret History
The probable reason that nobody at Mikimoto wanted a writer to go to the pearl farms of Ago…was because something terrible was happening in that bay. Since the 1990s, pollution has been pouring into the water, partly as a result of careless husbandry but also from untreated sewage from all the hotels that bring people in to enjoy the 'unspoiled wilderness'. No wonder the Japanese farmers were pulling out their oysters after just nine months: any longer than that and they risked losing most of their stock to the effluent in the water-it was killing the akoya oysters… Similar things are happening in Lake Biwa… Thanks to the pollution in the area, production at Lake Biwa has now declined almost to the point of nonexistence.
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Victoria Finlay _ Jewels: A Secret History
Like pearls that cannot be sprayed too much with perfume or warmed too much with smoke, left alone too much or touched too much, the mother oysters and mussels must be treated gently-as the Scottish pearl-fishers, too, had learned to their regret. These creatures are a barometer of how we are treating our planet. Sometimes in our greed to make them produce pretty things for our pleasure we forget that they deserve our respect.
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