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Fascinating stories of colors Seventy-five essays on colors and their cultural and social history are based on columns that the author regularly published in the British magazine Elle Decoration. Each chapter consists of short, two- to four-page essays discussing various shades of the color in question from the perspective of science, history, art, or culture. Kassia St. Clair tells a vivid story of colors, from white protecting against the plague, through Van Gogh's chrome yellow, punk fluorescent pink, Picasso's blue, to the charcoal color on the walls of the Lascaux cave and jet black.