Chromophobia
Publisher: Reaktion Books, 2000001: 7035ISBN: 1861890745Subject(s): ColourDDC classification: 701.85019 BATItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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701.85 HOR Colour : a workshop for artists and designers / | 701.85 JAR Chroma : a book of colour : June '93 / | 701.85 SOZ Black book: art and fashion: a noir | 701.85019 BAT Chromophobia | 701.8569 EIS Pantone : the 20th century in color / | 702.3 BRI Creative graduate pathways within and beyond the creative industries / | 702.3 BRI Creative graduate pathways within and beyond the creative industries / |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or contamination through color - lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. 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 cosmetic.
Chromophobia has been a cultural phenomenon since ancient Greek times; this book is concerned with forms of resistance to it. Writers have tended to look no further than the end of the nineteenth century. 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. 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.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 Whitescapes (p. 9)
- 2 Chromophobia (p. 21)
- 3 Apocalypstick (p. 51)
- 4 Hanunoo (p. 73)
- 5 Chromophilia (p. 97)
- References (p. 113)
- Select Bibliography and Filmography (p. 119)
- List of Illustrations (p. 123)
- Acknowledgements (p. 124)
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