The Primary Colors: Three Essays
by Alexander Theroux
published
April 1996
by Henry Holt & Company
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Paperback, 288 pages
isbn
0805047018
(isbn13: 9780805047011)
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Read in August, 2008
Three separate essays, one on each on blue, yellow and red. They were highly enjoyable and readable and you left each essay with an overall impression of how each color is represented in nature and in society despite sometimes contradictory uses.
In the end though it felt like an endless stream of trivia about color. I didn't feel like he really paused long enough on any given aspect of a color or its use to dig in. Luckily it was a highly entertaining stream of trivia.
In the end though it felt like an endless stream of trivia about color. I didn't feel like he really paused long enough on any given aspect of a color or its use to dig in. Luckily it was a highly entertaining stream of trivia.
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I certainly had never thought about color in the depth this book goes into. Good writing and way more interesting than you think could be.
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Read in January, 2003
I just became besotted with color - what a wonderful minute tour through color land. Absolutely vivid!
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Did you know that New Zealand has blue sheep?
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