Amandine Gallienne deploys a palette of a hundred definitions to reflect on our perception and show us that colour is a cultural marker par excellence.

Colour is like the air we breathe. It is everywhere: from nature to buildings, from paintings to advertising posters, from fashion to the language of flowers, from chromatography to heraldry?

But did you know that the meaning of colours differs from culture to culture and even from age to age, or that cathedrals were originally multi-coloured, or that some colour names cannot be translated into certain languages, or that who discovered the electromagnetic spectrum of light, or that black is a colour?

Amandine Gallienne deploys a palette of a hundred definitions to reflect on our perception and show us that colour is a cultural marker par excellence.

Publisher: La Marca