An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour: The Harvard Art Museums' Forbes Pigment Collection

Special Edition.An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour; The Harvard Art Museums' Forbes Pigment Collection, is a monograph produced in collaboration with the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums.The Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums encompassesover 2500 of the world's rarest pigments. Visually excavating the museums' extraordinary collection, themonograph examines the contained pigments and artefacts; their providence, composition, symbologyand application. Simultaneously, the publication also explores the larger related fields of chromatics, thehistorical narratives of art and chemistry, and the innovations our species' have sought for millennia, tobetter illustrate our aesthetic and expressive compulsions.An introduction to the monograph is authored by Straus Center Director Dr. Narayan Khandekar, andaccompanied with a foreword by renowned British colour author, Victoria Finlay.