Shades of meaning
Oct 28, 2021
2 minutes
The World According to Colour by James Fox
Allen Lane, 320 pages, £25
Human culture attaches meaning to colours, then uses those colours to articulate and explore new meanings. In this brief, compelling book, James Fox shows that the meanings connected to particular colours aren’t arbitrary but are instead materially, socially
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