A list of books gathered and read while I was collecting and distilling pigment from the earth. Favorites are marked ★.
Albers, Joseph. On the Interaction of Colors. Yale University Press, 2013.
Balfour Paul, Jenny. Deeper Than Indigo. Medina Publishing, 2015.
Ball, Philip. Bright Earth: Art and the invention of Color. The University of Chicago Press, 2001.
★ Batchelor, David. Chromophobia. Reaktion Books, 2001.
Batchelor, David, ed. Colour. MIT Press, 2008.
★ Batchelor, David. The Luminous and the Grey. Reaktion Books, 2014.
Baty, Patrick. The Anatomy of Colour. Thames & Hudson, 2017
Cennini, Cennino d'Andrea. The Craftsman Handbook. Dover, 1960.
★ Finlay, Victory. Color: A Natural History of the Palette. Random House, 2003.
Gage, John. Color and Culture. University of California Press, 1999.
Garfield, Simon. Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World. W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
Gass, William. On Being Blue. New York Review Books, 2014.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Theory of Colours. MIT Press, 1970.
★ Greenfield, Amy Butler. A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire. Harper Perennial, 2006.
Jarman, Derek. Chroma: A Book of Color. University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Khandekar, Narayan. Collecting Colour. ArtEZ Press, 2017.
Leslie, Esther. Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art, and the Chemical Industry. Reaktion Books, 2006.
Magaloni Kerpel, Diana. The Colors of the New World: Artists, Materials, and the Creation of the Florentine Codex. Getty Research Institute, 2014.
★ Nelson, Maggie. Bluets. Wave Books, 2009.
★ Taussig, Michael. What Color ls The Sacred? University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Thomas, Anne Wall. Colors from the Earth: The Preparation and Use of Native Earth Pigments. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1980.