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Batchelor, David

 
9781861890740: Chromophobia (Foci)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1861890745 ISBN 13: 9781861890740
Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Batchelor is Senior Tutor in Critical Theory at the Royal College of Art, London. He is also the author of Minimalism (1997).

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Verlag
Reaktion Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1861890745
ISBN 13 
9781861890740
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Anzahl der Seiten
124
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