On Color

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By David Kastan and Stephen Farthing

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On Color by David Kastan and Stephen Farthing explores the profound impact and significance of colour in our lives, blending historical, philosophical, and psychological perspectives. By delving into how colours influence art, culture, and perception, the authors examine the roles that different hues have played throughout history. The book offers an engaging dialogue between a literary scholar and an artist, providing a multifaceted understanding of the power and meaning of colour.
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This book may appeal to you if you are fascinated by the philosophical and psychological aspects of colour. It delves into how colour shapes aesthetic experience and cultural perceptions, offering deep insights through a blend of art history, science, and personal anecdotes. If you're curious about the interaction between colour and human consciousness, this exploration is sure to captivate.

On Color

A brilliant and bold look at the role of color in our lives

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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 colour in our lives.

Our lives are saturated by colour. We live in a world of vivid colours, and colour marks our psychological and social existence. But for all colour’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 colour 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 colour, they examine the various ways colours have shaped and continue to shape our social and moral imaginations.

Each individual colour becomes the focal point for a consideration of one of the extraordinary ways in which colour appears and matters in our lives. Beautifully produced in full colour, On Color is a remarkably smart, entertaining, and fascinating guide to this elusive topic.

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The book is lauded as a sparkling and informative exploration of colour, appreciated for its blend of scholarship and entertainment. It offers a fascinating study, enriching readers' perceptions by examining the strange history of seeing in colour and is praised for changing how one perceives the world. The work combines art history with cultural and literary studies, making it a rich addition for those passionate about colour.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300248463

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 October 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 47 color illus.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 272

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Arts and Crafts David Kastan Education & Reference History & Military Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Stephen Farthing

About the Author

David Scott Kastan, the George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University, is one of the general editors of the Arden Shakespeare. Stephen Farthing is an artist, an elected member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and an Emeritus Fellow of St. Edmund Hall, the University of Oxford.