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Kassia St Clair received a first in History from Bristol University and went on to study English women's dress and the masquerade during the eighteenth century at Oxford, where she received a distinction.
She is a journalist and author who has written about design and culture for publications including the Economist, Elle, and the Times Literary Supplement.
She lives in London. ...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 25,197 ratings · 2,247 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Secret Lives of Color 4.01 avg rating — 21,083 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History 4.09 avg rating — 3,642 ratings — published 2018 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Race to the Future: 8,000 Miles to Paris―The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century 3.71 avg rating — 452 ratings — published 2024 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Lives of Colour / The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St. Clair 4.63 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Race to the Future: 8,000 Miles to Paris - The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Colors, therefore, should be understood as subjective cultural creations: you could no more meaningfully secure a precise universal definition for all the known shades than you could plot the coordinates of a dream.”
― Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color

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“Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did.”
― Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color

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“So, in a way, the color we perceive an object to be is precisely the color it isn’t: that is, the segment of the spectrum that is being reflected away.”
― Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color

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