Abstract
In one way or another, everyone is interested in colour. It often arouses emotional reactions—sometimes powerful ones—yet information about colour remains mostly specialised, and is very rarely comprehensive. I have tried here to provide widely based information on a subject which, although it is of such universal importance, is seriously neglected in general education.
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Verity, E. (1980). Understanding Colour. In: Colour Observed. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16373-1_1
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