If you want to understand society, look at the way it talks about hue, suggests a new tome from art historian Alexandra Loske. In the shadow of World War II, modern capitalism was beginning to take ...

"The color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up through the Middle Ages, red held a place of privilege in the Western world. For many ...

Manganese black: Art in the Ice Age -- Red ocher: The sacred and dangerous in Australia -- Egyptian blue: King Tut's infrared transmitter -- Greek white: The myth of the white city -- Yellow ocher: ...

Michel Pastoureau, Yellow: The History of a Color (image courtesy of Princeton University Press) My copy of the Penguin Dictionary of Symbols describes yellow as “the hottest, the most expansive and ...

The use of red in clothing often means power, or “look at me—I stand out.” Look no further than the 2016 presidential race in the United States, where one candidate is famous for wearing an overly ...