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Chromophobia / David Batchelor.
- Title
- Chromophobia / David Batchelor.
- Author
- Batchelor, David, 1955-
- Publication
- London : Reaktion, 2000.
- ©2000
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Details
- Description
- 124 pages : color illustrations; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Batchelor coins the term "chromophobia"--A fear of corruption or contamination through color--in a meditation on color in western culture. Batchelor analyzes the history of, and the motivations behind, chromophobia, from its beginnings through examples of nineteenth-century literature, twentieth-century architecture and film to Pop art, minimalism and the art and architecture of the present day. He argues that there is a tradition of resistance to colour in the West, exemplified by many attempts to purge color from art, literature and architecture. Batchelor seeks to analyze the motivations behind chromophobia, considering the work of writers and philosophers who have used color as a significant motif, and offering new interpretations of familiar texts and works of art.
- Series Statement
- Focus on contemporary issues
- Uniform Title
- Focus on contemporary issues.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and filmography (pages 119-122).
- Language (note)
- English.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Whitescapes -- Chromophobia -- Apocalypstick -- Hanunoo -- Chromophilia.
- ISBN
- 1861890745
- 9781861890740
- 9781861895479
- 186189547X
- LCCN
- 00002145
- 99970932268
- OCLC
- 43819111
- SCSB-11622053
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library