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This book examines how the changing role of colour in society has been reflected in manuscripts, stained glass, clothing, painting and popular culture. Colour is, of course, a natural phenomenon, but it is also a complex cultural construct that resists generalisation. Serious studies of colour are rare, and rarer…

• What problem regarding colour does the writer explain in the first paragraph?
• What is the first reason the writer gives for the lack of academic work on the history of colour?