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This book examines how the ever-changing role of colour in society has been reflected in manuscripts, stained glass, clothing, painting and popular culture. Colour is a natural phenomenon, of course, but it is also a complex cultural construct that resists generalization and, indeed, analysis itself. No doubt this is…

• 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?