An acclaimed cultural history of blacknow available in an attractive, text-only, pocket-sized paperbackBlackfavorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascistshas always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad.
How scribes of the ancient Maya pictured sound and meaning through inventive hieroglyphic writing that pulsed with vitality and witFor two millennia, the ancestral Maya of Mexico and Central America created a rich legacy of image and text.
How Black painters use color to create meaning, provoke remembrance, stir emotion, and uplift the spiritColor does more than capture a viewer's attention.
How Black painters use color to create meaning, provoke remembrance, stir emotion, and uplift the spiritColor does more than capture a viewer's attention.
How scribes of the ancient Maya pictured sound and meaning through inventive hieroglyphic writing that pulsed with vitality and witFor two millennia, the ancestral Maya of Mexico and Central America created a rich legacy of image and text.
A first-hand account of art, survival and resistance in wartime Ukraine The most beautifully written, moving book I can ever remember reading PHILIPPA PERRY A book for our times PHILIPPE SANDS'A brilliant and unforgettable book' EDMUND DE WAALCharlotte Higgins never imagined she would report on a war.
