Chromophobia

[Mark Kohut]

A-And we know how positive color is in OBAs vision......
More wide-rangingness.....
  
Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
  Batchelor, David. Chromophobia. Distributed for Reaktion Books. 128
p., 6 color plates. 5.75 x 8.25 Series: (RB-FOCI) Reaktion Books -
Focus on Contemporary Issues (FOCI)

Paper NSA $19.95 ISBN: 978-1-86189-074-0 (ISBN-10: 1-86189-074-5)

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
1. Whitescapes
2. Chromophobia
3. Apocalypstick
4. Hanunoo
5. Chromophilia
References
Select Bibliography and Filmography
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/164842.ctl

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