The World According To Color by James Fox
A Cultural History
An exploration of how colors have shaped human culture, politics, religion, and art, weaving together stories from natural history, pigment technology, language, and perception. Moving across civilizations and eras, it shows how specific hues accrued power and symbolism—sparking trade, inspiring devotion, signaling status, and provoking conflict—while revealing the scientific and psychological forces behind why we see and feel color as we do. The result is a vivid, interdisciplinary portrait of the spectrum as a force that organizes our world and imaginations.
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- 2021
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