Blue has had a long and topsy-turvy History in the Western world.
Pastoureau investigates how the ever-changing role of blue.
Any History of Color is, above all, a social history.
In this fascinating history, the renowned medievalist Michel Pastoureau traces the changing meanings of blue from its rare appearance in prehistoric art to its international ubiquity today.
The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now cite it as their favorite color.
Blue has had a long and topsy-turvy History in the Western world