In her book The Secret Lives of Colour, Kassia St Clair writes that ‘[a] certain distaste for colour runs through Western culture like a ladder in a stocking’. A distraction from form, dishonest, even sinful – these are some of the many attitudes towards vibrant colour expressed by Westerners, from Herman Melville to Le Corbusier. Colour, when used, was often highly controlled and hugely political … Continue reading Bursts of colour