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From prehistoric caves to Greek vases to medieval devils to dueling monks to Coco Chanel, black is one of art and design history’s most powerful and interesting colors (or non-colors). “Paint...
Oct 3, 2022 · In 16th Century Russia, Ivan the Terrible's secret police were dressed in black, explains Harvey, and centuries later, "fascist black" became the uniform of the far right.
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Mar 31, 2014 · "The statutes of Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas assert that 'a person of color' is one who is descended from a Negro to the third generation, inclusive,...
- Kee Malesky
May 23, 2020 · Whilst physics explains black as the absorption of all visible light, society has reinterpreted the colour not as what we don’t see, but as a sign of protest, grief, peculiarity, eroticism and chic, among other meanings.
Nov 5, 2020 · “Black became the colour of distinction,” Philip Ball, the author of “Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Colour”, has said. It wasn’t only a hue in its own right, artists realised, but an...
Black became the color of the uniform of the SS, the Schutzstaffel or "defense corps", the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, and was worn by SS officers from 1932 until the end of World War II. The Nazis used a black triangle to symbolize anti-social elements.
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Black was fast becoming the “distinct sign of a special rank and of public morality” (p. 115). Flashy colours were incompatible with such social positions and often reserved to the social segregation of such pariahs as prostitutes, Jews, jugglers, musicians, and lepers or beggars.
