Black: The History of a Color, Pocket Edition

An acclaimed cultural history of black—now available in an attractive, text-only, pocket-sized paperback

Black—favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists—has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. In this book, the acclaimed author of Blue now tells the fascinating social history of the color black in Europe.

In the beginning was black, M...