Shakespeare, William, 12, 45, 96, 126, 140
Hamlet, 164
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 12
Shia Islam, 87–88
Simon, Paul, “Kodachrome,” 201
Simpson, Wallis, 160
Sisley, Alfred, 140
Sixtus V, Pope, 63
skin color, 63–66, 69–74, 78–79
sky, color of, 1, 85, 114, 140, 142, 167–68
slavery, and indigo production, 127–33
Social Democrats, 84
socialism, 90, 92
Society of American Florists, 23
Song Jiaoren, 92
Sontag, Susan, 197
Southey, Robert, 111
Soviet Union, 91
spectrum of colors, 9, 47, 83, 121, 139
Stallybrass, Peter, 111
Steichen, Edward, 197
Stella, Frank, 192–93
The Whiteness of the Whale, 178, 193
Stepanova, Varvara, 174
Stevens, Wallace, 85, 167
Stieglitz, Alfred, 197
Striker, Roy, 204
Strindberg, August, 141–42
Suetin, Nikolai, 175
Sun Yat-sen, 92
suprematism, 170
Surrey NanoSystems, 164
Swift, Taylor, 33
Swinton, Tilda, 115
symbols, 184–85, 192
Szymborska, Wislawa, 108
Taiwan, political associations of color in, 89, 92–93
tangerine, 44
Taussig, Michael, 128
Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, 122–23
tawny, 45, 63
Taylor, Elizabeth, 140
Technicolor, 114, 211, 213
TenshÅ embassy, 63
Terry, Nigel, 115
Thompson, Florence Owens, 204
Thompson, James, 10
Tiffany, Louis Comfort, 68
Titian, 12, 109, 163
Bacchus and Ariadne, 111
Tóibín, Colm, 18
To Kill a Mockingbird (film), 210
Tom Brown’s School Days, 103
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 106
transcendence: blue associated with, 108–9, 116
painting and, 57, 112–13
Turner, J. M. W., 169
Turner, Pete, 200
Turrell, James, 153
Skyspace Piz Uter, 154
Ukraine, 94, 96
ultramarine, 109, 111
United Kingdom, 182
Valéry, Paul, 198
van der Bellen, Alexander, 83
Van Dyke, Anthony, 163
Van Gogh, Vincent, 51–53, 55, 68, 72, 152
Still Life with Basket and Six Oranges, 48, 49, 50–52
Vantablack, 164–65, 166
Velázquez, Diego, 163
violet, 139–52
modern art characterized by, 140–42, 144, 146–47, 152
in Monet’s paintings, 142, 144, 146, 148–49, 152
pigments used for, 152
purple compared to, 139–40, 147
Virgil, 12
vision: language as influence on, 8–9
as physiological constant, 9
thought as influence on, 12–14. See also cones (vision)
retina; rods (vision); sense perception
Vollard, Ambroise, 106
Wand, Hart, “Dallas Blues,” 103
Washington, George, 18, 64
Washington Redskins, 79
watercolors, 151–52
Watkins, Michael, 218n17
Weston, Edward, 197
whales, 180–82, 183, 185–87
white, 179–93
black in relation to, 165–66, 187–88
classical art and, 188–90
as a color, 179–80
connotations of, 74, 75, 77
emotions associated with, 101
enigmatic character of, 180–82, 186–87, 192
lies associated with, 179–80, 190
meanings of, 180–82, 187–89
Moby-Dick and, 180–82, 187–88
monochrome paintings of, 190–92
political connotations of, 93
as skin color, 63–66, 69–70, 74
truths associated with, 190–93
Whitman, Sarah Lyman, 68
Whitney Biennial, 71
Wilde, Oscar, 53, 107, 144
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 65
William III, King of England and Ireland, 95
Wilson, August, “The Best Blues Singer in the World,” 104
Wilton Diptych, 109, 112
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 189
wine-dark sea, 4–6, 9
Witherspoon, Reese, 209
The Wizard of Oz (film), 18, 211–13
woad, 122, 132
Wolff, Alfred, 142
Wordsworth, William, 9
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 68
Yates, Julian, 219n10
yellow, 63–79
Asians associated with, 63–69
connotations of, 66, 71
dye for, 122
political connotations of, 94
as skin color, 63–66, 71
yellow peril, 65–66
Yushchenko, Viktor, 94
Zola, Émile, 142
Zurbarán, Francisco de, Agnus Dei, 182–84, 184, 186