This chronological anthology reflects on the aesthetic, cultural and philosophical meaning of colour to artists within the broader context of anthropology, film, philosophy and science. Those who loathe colour have had as much to say as those who love it. Establishing colour as a central theme in the story of modern art, this is an indispensable handbook to the definitions and debates around its history, meaning and use. Artists surveyed include Joseph Albers, Mel Bochner, Daniel Buren, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Jimmie Durham, Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Gauguin, Donald Judd, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Yves Klein, Kazimir Malevich, Piero Manzoni, Henri Matisse, Henri Michaux, Beatriz Milhazes, Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Helio Oiticica, Paul Signac, Ad Reinhardt, Gerhard Richter, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Bridget Riley, Mark Rothko, Yinka Shonibare, Jessica Stockholder, Theo van Doesburg, Vincent van Gogh, Victor Vasarely and Rachel Whiteread. Writers include Theodor Adorno, Roland Barthes, Charles Baudelaire, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Charles Blanc, Jacques Derrida, Thierry de Duve, Umberto Eco, Victoria Finlay, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Johannes Itten, Julia Kristeva, Claude Levi-Strauss, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, John Ruskin, Adrian Stokes and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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"In this remarkably imaginative collection of texts and fragments, David Batchelor has mined modern culture to extract deep seams of colour-thought. Like any great collection of things, it draws together the widest range of sources - from Melville to Matisse to Wittgenstein to Johnny Cash - to completely transform the way we think about how colour works in art and beyond." - Briony Fer, Professor of History of Art, University College London
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David Batchelor is a London-based artist and writer who has exhibited widely in Britain, continental Europe, the United States and Latin America. A regular contributor to journals such as Artforum and frieze, he is the author of Minimalism (Tate Publishing, 1997) and Chromophobia (Reaktion, 2000). He is Senior Tutor in Critical Art Theory, Department of Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art, London.
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By J. Smy
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I love this book! There are wonderful little jewels of prose relating to colour ranging from Baudelaire's writings in 1846 - to Tacita Dean in 2007. For anyone interested in colour or writings about it, this is worth adding to the library.
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this book is a very useful resource on a wide variety of writings concerning colour in art. Much of it is extremely interesting and informative
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Totally edutaining
29 July 2010
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Bought this book twice.... bought it, left it in a bar - bought it again. So that's how much I liked it. I'm going to be teaching a college course in color theory and practice this year, and I picked up this book during my research. (Also checked out "Chromophobia" from the library, and so far am enjoying it.) As a supplement to more meat-and-potatoes (read: boring and rote but necessary) color theory and techniques texts, I am finding this compendium to be lively and full of pithy quotes. It saves me from having to cull from impossibly long texts, and promises to be a good resource for future lectures. Maybe it's just because I am a greedy art reader and practicing painter, but I love this kind of stuff. Who knew? People used to write actual manifestos about specific colors: "White is pure! Purple is enervating! Black is luminous! ...no it's not!" There seems to be no agreement whatsoever, which is one of the things I love about art: it's an eternal argument with no resolution, but is strangely consensus-based at any given moment. Very worthwhile read, although you probably don't have to read it straight through, as I am doing.
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David Batchelors work is wonderful and thought provoking and this book is likewise.
14 July 2008
By G. L. Osserman
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This is an interesting look at the history of color theories. It has writings by artists and theorists. It follows a historical progression. As an artist I was drawn to comments by other artists. Much of the writing is detailed and some color theory would be helpful but certainly not necessary. David Batchelors work is wonderful and thought provoking and this book is likewise.
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A collection of comments on color by artists and writers
27 Feb 2009
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Many of the people quoted are famous and/or well-established, but the bulk of them seem to be from pretty far in the past and/or reknowned mainly in Britain. There are also many writers and members of other professions besides visual art. The comments just happen to be about color but are not particularly meaningful. That is, the comments are just snippets from someone's wider body of work as if the book's author had done a search on the word "colour" and included those three or four paragraphs that fit the subject. I didn't find this book very informative at all. I regret buying it.
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