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  • A Natural History of Color

  • The Science Behind What We See and How We See It
  • By: Rob DeSalle, Hans Bachor
  • Narrated by: George Newbern
  • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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A Natural History of Color

By: Rob DeSalle, Hans Bachor
Narrated by: George Newbern
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Over the years, color has dazzled, enhanced, and clarified the world we see. The experimental palettes of painting, the advent of the color photograph, Technicolor pictures, color printing, and so on have created a vivid and vibrant continuum. These ways of representing reality in “living color” echo our evolutionary reliance on and indeed privileging of color as a complex and vital form of consumption, classification, and creation. It’s everywhere we look, yet do we really know much of anything about it?

Finding color in stars and light, examining the system of classification that determines survival through natural selection, studying the arrival of color in our universe, and considering it as a fulcrum for philosophy, DeSalle’s brilliant A Natural History of Color establishes that an understanding of color on many different levels is at the heart of learning about nature, neurobiology, individualism, and even a philosophy of existence. Color and a fine-tuned understanding of it are vital to understanding ourselves and our consciousness.

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This Is An Excellent Book

This book is quite academic and cogently presented. I have no idea why someone would attack it or rate it badly. It's well read and understandable. Well reasoned. Well resourced. Well organized. It's excellent. I'm dubious of why the only other rating here is so low. The book seems very professional and competent. I own it. I like it.

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Absolutely enjoyed it

Absolutely enjoyed this book. I highly recommend this to people who interested in not just color also in history…

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A bit irritating to listen to …

The person reading had soft enunciation which occasionally conflated certain consonants and elided endings, plus he had a tendency to pause before or otherwise emphasize multisyllabic words and names. Add to this the slight nasal quality to the voice which occasionally evoked ‘fingernails on a chalkboard’ shudders, and it was a difficult listen. I am glad its over.

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