Colors & cultures

This is a bilingual collection of articles in English and in French by a group of international scholars who discuss the phenomenon of color in many different disciplines-which makes it possible to reflect on what the color experience means in various domains of human (and animal) life. Our contributions offer intercultural explorations from many corners of the color community. They deal with color as symbolism, in comparative linguistics, as a matter of feeling, cognition and epistemology, in Native American painting, about meanings of color in exemplary literary texts, in pop culture and fashion, in feminist argumentations, as an issue of the visual regimes of race in different art forms, of spirituality in Judeo-Christian culture and Islam as well as Modernist aesthetics, as a matter of color taxonomy at the Vatican and among traditional Zuni artists, in the business of dyeing textiles and its history, and in terms of technical issues such as the use of color to signal authenticity (stamps, paper money!), "unnatural" colors (fluorescence), or the role of color in new urban architecture.