What Is Color?What Is Color?

"Once you start digging, color turns out to be a lot of things--it's messy, stinky, and even a little bit dangerous. You may already know that color is art, like Claude Monet's orange sunrises or the green of the Statue of Liberty. But it's science, too, spanning everything from the periodic table to smelly cow pee to (maybe-fake) dragon's blood ... What Is Color? will take readers all over the world, introducing them to the strange, wacky, silly, and occasionally perilous history behind the colors that paint our everyday lives"--Page 4 of cover.