[Download ebook] Chromophobia (Focus on Contemporary Issues)
♥ David Batchelor ♥
| #117774 in Books | Reaktion Books | 2000-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.50 x5.75l,.64 | File Name: 1861890745 | 192 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| five stars|By Ken Roberts|Just like a blank canvas, Batchelor begins his story about color with a chapter devoted to the meaning of white. He shows the nature of white's psychological significance by examining its role in important literary works, like Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Herman Melville's Moby Dick. "For Melville, as for Conrad, there is an instability in t||
"A thorough and witty cultural history of color."
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 i... [PDF.ts88] Chromophobia (Focus on Contemporary Issues) Rating: 4.93 (635 Votes)
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