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On color

by David Scott Kastan, Stephen Farthing

This interdisciplinary study examines the history and significance of colour across ten individual chapters. It explores how various hues shape social and moral imaginations by analysing their roles in art, science, politics, and literature.

Accession 14156 ISBN 9780300171877 Publisher Yale University Press
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