Description
| Product ID: | 9780300248463 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | On Color |
| Authors: | Author: David Kastan, Stephen Farthing |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | Literary reference works, Literary reference works, Social and cultural history, Philosophy: aesthetics, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Painting, drawing and art manuals, Social & cultural history, Philosophy: aesthetics, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Painting & art manuals |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 vivid colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color’s inescapability, we don’t know much about it. Now 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, respectively, investigate color from numerous perspectives: literary, historical, cultural, anthropological, philosophical, art historical, political, and scientific. In ten lively and 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 book is a remarkably smart, entertaining, and fascinating guide to this elusive topic. |
| Imprint Name: | Yale University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Yale University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-10-22 |
