Presented in the Lemon Art Research Library

Following Color and Hue Library Talk in the Lemon Library,  join librarian Jesse Alexander Lopez in the Lemon Library for a book club discussion of The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair.

The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes, and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso’s blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history.