What is it about?
Provides a cultural history of the color red from cave painting to abstractions of the twentieth century
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Why is it important?
Explores red's cultural significance through the ages symbolically and socially
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This page is a summary of: Red: The History of a ColorRed: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau; translated by Jody Gladding. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., 2017. 216 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-0-691-17277-4., Leonardo, February 2018, The MIT Press,
DOI: 10.1162/leon_r_01565.
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