The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America - Hardcover

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<div><i>The Republic of Color</i> delves deep into the history of color science in the United States to unearth its origins and examine the scope of its influence on the industrial transformation of turn-of-the-century America.<br> &#160;<br> For a nation in the grip of profound economic, cultural, and demographic crises, the standardization of color became a means of social reform&#8212;a way of sculpting the American population into one more amenable to the needs of the emerging industrial order. Delineating color was also a way to characterize the vagaries of human nature, and to create ideal structures through which those humans would act in a newly modern American republic. Michael Rossi&#8217;s compelling history goes far beyond the culture of the visual to show readers how the control and regulation of color shaped the social contours of modern America&#8212;and redefined the way we see the world.</div>

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