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Unconditional Satisfaction GuaranteeNo Shipping Fees Above 302 Months to Decide. Returns Simplified.The Secret Lives of Color
Author: Kassia St. Clair
The Secret Lives of Colortells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes, and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picassos blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history.
In this book, Kassia St. Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colors and where they come from (whether Van Goghs chrome yellow sunflowers or punks fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilization. Across fashion and politics, art and war, the secret lives of color tell the vivid story of our culture.
Kassia St. Clairis a freelance journalist and author based in London. She graduated from Bristol University with a first-class honors degree in history in 2007 and went on to do a masters degree at Oxford. There she wrote her dissertation on womens masquerade costumes during the eighteenth century and graduated with distinction. She has since written about design and culture for publications includingThe Economist,House & Garden,Quartz, and theNew Statesman. She has had a column about color inElle Decorationsince 2013 and is a former assistant books and arts editor forThe Economist.
