Art Unfolded: A History of Art in Four Colours

Title: Art Unfolded: A History of Art in Four Colours 
Author: Ben Street 
Publisher: Ilex Press 
Theme: Crafts and creative activities 
Format: Softcover  
Pages: 128 
Dimension: 13 x 18 cm 
Language: English 
Release date: September 2018 
ISBN: 9781781575628 

Summary: 

Trace the history of art through 48 paintings and four colors, woven together to form a fascinating and kaleidoscopic tale.

BLUE: the color of the beyond and the divine
RED: the color of blood, purity and sensuality
GREEN: the color of new life, but also of sickness and death
GOLD: the color of wealth, attributed to the things we value most

These four colors tell the history of art in a way that few other details can. From the pigments that hold them - sometimes wildly expensive, like Ultramarine, or dangerously toxic, like Emerald Green - to the varied and changing meanings applied to them, these colors grant us access to fascinating stories, both of individual works of art and the world in which they were created.