The Secret Lives of Color
Kassia St. Clair is a London-based freelance journalist and author. She received a first-class honors degree in history from Bristol University in 2007 and went on to complete a master's degree at Oxford. She graduated with honors after completing her dissertation on women's masquerade clothes in the seventeenth century. Since then, she has written about design and culture for publications such as The Economist, House & Garden, Quartz, and the New Statesman.
The odd history of seventy-five interesting tints, dyes, and hues are told in The Secret Lives of Color. These surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history, from blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and scarlet women to imperial purple.
Kassia St. Clair has transformed her lifelong passion with colors and where they originate from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's bright pink) into a one-of-a-kind study of human civilisation in this book. The private lives of people of color convey the colorful story of our society in fashion, politics, art, and war.
Author: Kassia St. Clair
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Lives-Color-Kassia-Clair/dp/0143131141/
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