Colour: a human history
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Black Isn't a Colour
Black is the colour of grief. It's the colour you wear to funerals. But not every culture associates it with mourning, deprivation or death. In ancient greece and ancient rome there were very strict rules about what kind of colours could be worn. And a typically black or very dark colours, were associated with a death. We still do that if we go to a funeral in the west. Black has these complex connotations - they're not solely about death and mourning.
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