Cultures of Colour : : Visual, Material, Textual / / ed. by Chris Horrocks.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Baker, Charlotte,; Chare, Nicholas,; Corris, Michael,; Figueroa, Mónica Moreno,; Forsdick, Charles,; Horrocks, Chris,; Hudek, Antony,; Karatheodoris, Kiki,; Lear, Beverley,; Pearce, Mary,; Watkins, Liz,
• HerausgeberIn: Horrocks, Chris,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (196 p.)

Colour permeates contemporary visual and material culture and affects our senses beyond the superficial encounter by infiltrating our perceptions and memories and becoming deeply rooted in thought processes that categorise and divide along culturally constructed lines. Colour exists as a cultural as well as psycho-physical phenomenon and acquires a multitude of meanings within differing historical and cultural contexts. The contributors examine how colour becomes imbued with specific symbolic and material meanings that tint our constructions of race, gender, ideal bodies, the relationship of the self to others and of the self to technology and the built environment. By highlighting the relationship of colour across media and material culture, this volume reveals the complex interplay of cultural connotations, discursive practices and socio-psychological dynamics of colour in an international context.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: BEYOND THE LANGUAGE OF COLOUR -- PART I COLOUR AND VISUAL CULTURE -- CHAPTER 1 AD REINHARDT: ‘COLOR BLINDS’ -- CHAPTER 2 THE EYE IS A SPHINCTER, OR WHO’S AFRAID OF THE POSTMODERN MONOCHROME? -- CHAPTER 3 COLOUR SOUNDINGS: AFTER THE TONE OF FRANCIS BACON -- CHAPTER 4 COLOUR AS A BRIDGE BETWEEN ART AND SCIENCE -- PART II COLOUR AND MATERIAL CULTURE -- CHAPTER 5 COLOUR IN GARDENS: A QUESTION OF CLASS OR GENDER? -- CHAPTER 6 CREATING A MIDDLE GROUND: CRITICAL REMARKS ON THE COLOUR/FORM RELATION -- CHAPTER 7 HEIDEGGER’S PIXEL: DIGITAL COLOUR AS ‘STANDING RESERVE’ -- CHAPTER 8 THE DISILLUSION OF THE IMAGE: CINEMATOGRAPHY, COLOUR, SOUND AND DESIRE -- PART III COLOUR, TEXT AND RACE -- CHAPTER 9 CHROMATIC AMBIVALENCE: COLOURING THE ALBINO -- CHAPTER 10 TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE AND HAITIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY: A PIGMENTOCRATIC APPROACH -- CHAPTER 11 ‘LINDA MORENITA’: SKIN COLOUR, BEAUTY AND THE POLITICS OF MESTIZAJE IN MEXICO -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX