An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour
The Harvard Art Museums' Forbes Pigment Collection
New
The Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums possesses over 2500 of the world’s rarest pigments. Visually and anthropologically excavating the extraordinary collection, Atelier Editions’ monograph examines the contained artefacts’ providence, composition, symbology and application. Whilst simultaneously exploring the larger field of chromatics, utilising a variety of theoretical frameworks to interpret the collection anew. An introduction to the monograph is authored by Straus Center Director Dr. Narayan Khandekar.
Also available in Hardback
Contributors: Victoria Finlay, Pascale Georgiev, Narayan Khandekar, Capucine Labarthe, Kingston Trinder
Publisher: Atelier Editions
224 pages
200 colour illustrations
28cm × 24cmFormat: Paperback
2017
ISBN: 9780997593549
£33.00