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A review by amandasupak
The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair
informative
fast-paced
3.5
3.5 stars
While there are lots of interesting little stories and tidbits, this book has a major flaw, but hear me out though! I listened to this on audiobook at first and was disappointed because each chapter is the name of a color (some of which I had never heard of before), and also the author mentions a lot of different kinds of pieces of art. So I figured I just needed to see the actual book so I picked up an ebook version to supplement my reading. While each chapter does show a block of color that each chapter is talking about, it fails to depict any of the colors it's talking about in the text and does now show any pictures of the art pieces it mentions frequently. It was frustrating to have to constantly stop and google what the author was talking about.
While there are lots of interesting little stories and tidbits, this book has a major flaw, but hear me out though! I listened to this on audiobook at first and was disappointed because each chapter is the name of a color (some of which I had never heard of before), and also the author mentions a lot of different kinds of pieces of art. So I figured I just needed to see the actual book so I picked up an ebook version to supplement my reading. While each chapter does show a block of color that each chapter is talking about, it fails to depict any of the colors it's talking about in the text and does now show any pictures of the art pieces it mentions frequently. It was frustrating to have to constantly stop and google what the author was talking about.