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On Color
- Author
- David Scott Kastan
- Narrator
- Robertson Dean
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 22 May 2018
- Run Time
- 5 hours 55 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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 ubiquity, 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. This is a remarkably smart, entertaining, and fascinating guide to an elusive topic.
Ranging from Homer to Picasso to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant book awakens us anew to the role of color in our world.
Critics Review
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“Here is a subtle and imaginative insight into the slippery phenomenon we call color.”
Colin Thubron, New York Times bestselling author
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“A deliciously readable, gloriously illumined work of meditation and exploration, written in high resolution.”
Jay Parini, bestselling author of The Last Station
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Details
- Author
- David Scott Kastan
- Narrator
- Robertson Dean
- Duration
- 5 hours 55 minutes
- Release Date
- 22 May 2018
- ISBN
- 9781538536131
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Social and cultural history, Colours and colour theory, Philosophy: aesthetics
Synopsis
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 ubiquity, 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. This is a remarkably smart, entertaining, and fascinating guide to an elusive topic.Ranging from Homer to Picasso to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant book awakens us anew to the role of color in our world.
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