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 ...

Two folds from an Astrolin Color Card pamphlet by Établissement Georget Fils Peintures Laquées et Vernis, Chantenay-Lès-Nantes (c. 1906), 6 3/10 x 3 3/4 inches (image courtesy Bibliothèque Forney, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Colors mean different things to different people across time and space, but the color red has remained an integral way of representing hate, love and luxury for millennia. In a new book on the history ...