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    21 MUST-READ ART BOOKS

    Nov 27, 2020 5 minutes

    1 Colour

    Victoria Finlay

    Obsessed with colour since first seeing the stained glass of Chartres Cathedral as a child, Victoria Finlay gave up her arts journalist job in Hong Kong to travel the world in search of fresh hues. Visits to North African bazaars and Afghanistan lapis mines inspire personal anecdotes in this most colourful of travelogues.

    Sceptre, £12.99

    2 Bluets

    Maggie Nelson

    From Suzanne Dean’s V&A Illustration Award-winning cover on down, there is much to love about this paean to the colour blue in all its connotations.

    Written in 240 short, numbered truth bombs, Maggie Nelson weaves thoughts on Yves Klein, Greek philosophy and Joni Mitchell’s Blue into an entirely personal reflection on art, life and the end of an affair.

    Jonathan Cape, £10.99

    3 Interaction of Colour

    Josef Albers

    The Bauhaus artist Josef Albers was teaching at Yale when he published a silkscreen edition of this classic text back in 1963. The subsequent paperback has

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