Pink: The History of a Color

by Michel Pastoureau

From the acclaimed author of Blue and other color histories, the beautifully illustrated story of pink, from the first ancient pigments to Barbie

Pink has such powerful associations today that it's hard to imagine the color could ever have meant anything different. But it's only since the introduction of the Barbie doll in 1959 that pink has become decisively feminized. Indeed, in the eighteenth century, pink was frequently...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691266263
• ISBN13: 9780691266268
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 192 Pages