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Book Review of Amy B. Greenfields A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the color of Desire
Content:
1. Introduction
2. A Perfect Red- an interesting and useful reading
3. Conclusion
4. Bibliography
Introduction
What colour would you use to underline the most important information in the advertisement? What colour does human eye distinguish best of all in the dark? What colour symbolises blood and passion at the same time? The most of the people will guess this colour without any difficulty. It’s a red colour. For majority it’s just one of the colours of colour palette, not worse or better than the others. It doesn’t come to our minds that the colour could be the reason of wars, the object of espionage, could cause the growth or fall or the whole Empires. Therefore these are historical facts, stated in Amy Greenfield’s historic research. The whole book is dedicated to one red colour, but it touches almost all the aspects concerning to red – its history, its use, its production, its chemical mixture, etc.
Amy B. Greenfield’s A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the colour of Desire is a perfect mixture of entertaining read you can’t get your eyes off with the informative and useful information on many fields, such as business history, chemistry, biology and even psychology and advertisement.
A Perfect Red – an interesting and useful reading
I’ve read the book in one breath. I would never have thought the history of one colour could be so fascinated, so tragic, powerful and symbolic. A Perfect Red is a story how the colour ruled people, occupied their minds, made them obsessed.
In her book Amy uncovers many interesting facts from the history of red colour and important role it has played during the centuries. For many monarchs, kings and governors this colour symbolised prestige, power and higher position. As Greenfield writes, “Elusive, expensive, and invested with powerful symbolism, red cloth became the prized possession of the wealthy and well-born.” (Greenfield, 68). Montezuma, great Aztec chief, insisted on his exclusive right to wear the brightest shades of the red as necessary attribute of his wealth and power. Such examples are multiple. The attitude to this colour could be different in different cultures and historical periods, but by major part it was the colour of the higher society, symbolising its uniqueness. The answer to the question why this happened becomes evident after we read the book. From the book we understand it was a real problem to get a red dye of high quality. The colours achieved from the plant sources such as henna or madder and insects such as Laccifer lacca were not bright enough or had some other shades. It also faded away very quickly. So those, who wanted to wear or use things of a perfect colour, had to pay big money for shipping it from other countries.
In her book, Greenfield put her detailed investigation about the export of cochineal by Spanish trades people. While making some investigations on other topic, she became intrigued by the quantity of cargo manifests of Spanish trade ships in 16-17 century. They were exporting cochineal – the basic component for the perfect red dye. After detailed investigation, Amy got an interesting history of “perfect” colour, which she presented in her book.
She centres he narration around cochineal - a product of organic origin, which was used to produce vibrant red dye. Cochineal helped to produced “brightest, strongest red the Old World had ever seen” And was praised as gold by Europeans, who hadn’t seen such a perfect red dye before. Greenfield gives a detailed history analysis of the matter, which doesn’t leave any blank sports and misunderstandings. Great research work, performed by the author is expressed in a perfect literary work, which is read like a novel. The depth of research is proved also by the list of the references at the end of the book, which gives the field for further reading or provides necessary proves, if necessary.