Cultures of Colour : : Visual, Material, Textual / / ed. by Chris Horrocks.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (196 p.) |
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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