On color
By: David Scott Kastan ; with Stephen Farthing
Contributors: Farthing, Stephen, 1950- author
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780300171877
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Color; Social aspects; Color (Philosophy); Psychological aspects
Description: Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant book awakens us anew to the role of color in our lives. Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color's inescapability, we don't know much about it. Authors David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing offer a fresh and imaginative exploration of one of the most intriguing and least understood aspects of everyday experience. Kastan and Farthing, a scholar and a painter, investigate color from numerous perspectives: literary, historical, cultural, anthropological, philosophical, art historical, political, and scientific. In ten wide-ranging chapters, each devoted to a different color, they examine the various ways colors have shaped and continue to shape our social and moral imaginations. Each individual color becomes the focal point for a consideration of one of the extraordinary ways in which color appears and matters in our lives. Beautifully produced in full color, this is a remarkably smart, entertaining, and fascinating guide to this elusive topic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-237) and index.
Table of contents: title: Color matters : an introduction; title: Roses are red; title: Orange is the new brown; title: Yellow perils; title: Mixed greens; title: Moody blues; title: Dy(e)ing for indigo; title: At the violet hour; title: Basic black; title: White lies; title: Gray areas.