Chromophobia (Focus on Contemporary Issues)
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (842 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1861890745 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Exploring a wide range of imagery including Melville's "great white whale", Huxley's reflections on mescaline, and Le Corbusier's "journey to the East", Batchelor also discusses the use of color in Pop, Minimal, and more recent art.. David Batchelor seeks to go beyond the limits of earlier studies, analyzing the motivations behind chromophobia and considering the work of writers and artists who have been prepared to look at color as a positive value. Writers have tended to look no further than the end of the nineteenth century. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge color, either by making it the property of some "foreign body" - the oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, or the pathological - or by relegating it to the realm of the superficial, the supplementary, the inessential, or the cos
"A thorough and witty cultural history of color."
its ok read this for class it was ok buy it if you want to i dont want to tell you how to live. "Why are you bothering me" according to A. Ranieri. I bought and paid for the product isn't that enough? And then they want ten more words corporate pests. Oink.. Color As Corruption, Or Is It? Color as chaos. Color as other: feminine, strange, dangerous. Color as cosmetic, therefore superficial and vulgar. Color as corruption. This is the mindset behind chromophobia. In his book, which defines and takes this term as its title, David Batchelor sets out to present his argument; namely, that Western culture, from nearly its beginn