Pink

The Magic of a Colour

‘Pink isn't just a colour, it's an attitude!’ Miley Cyrus

From Homer’s Dawn to the World’s Pinkest Pink by Stuart Semple. From Pink Panther to La vie en rose. The colour pink opens up a world of stories from art, pop culture and gender symbolism, and no one tells them as well as Björn Vedder: painters saw pink as the incarnation of the spirit. Madame Pompadour was the first to turn the colour into a symbol of
self-confident women. Poets wrapped lovers in pink clouds to protect them from the cruelty of the world.

Later, the colour went to the dogs, became a cipher for conservative housewives with Mamie Eisenhower and, with Barbie at the latest, a colour pigment of limitless plastic consumption. Björn Vedder brings the pink magic back into the present: Rose Up Your Life! A book that makes you want more colour in your life and a ray of hope in less rosy times.

• Stories about the colour pink. A plea for the enchantment of the world.
• For readers of Kai Kupferschmidt’s ‘Blue’ and Gabriele von Arnim ‘The Consolation of Beauty’