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The Primary Colors: Three Essays

A fascinating cultural history, these splendid essays on the three primary colors—blue, yellow, and red—extend to the artistic, literary, linguistic, botanical, cinematic, aesthetic, religious, scientific, culinary, climatological, and emotional dimensions of each color. QBPC Selection.

Themes
art
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 268 pages
Form
essays

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