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I specialize in presentations about the cultural history of colours. Duration 90 to 120 minutes.
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Colour worlds from A to Z

• From Madonna blue to jeans blue –
  from royal purple to labourers’ trousers:
  A cultural history of the colour blue
• Snails, lice and peach stones:
  Colour stories about red and black
• The colour red: From alizarin madder lake to cinnabar
  From red ochre to Ferrari red
• The colour yellow: Saffron, urine and arsenic
  From the historical yellow pigments to the present
• The first colours of humankind
  black – red – yellow – white