| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 254 pages) : 44 illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-240) and index. |
| Summary |
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 colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color's inescapability, 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. Beautifully produced in full color, this is a remarkably smart, entertaining, and fascinating guide to this elusive topic. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Color Matters: An Introduction -- Chapter One. Roses Are Red -- Chapter Two. Orange Is the New Brown -- Chapter Three. Yellow Perils -- Chapter Four. Mixed Greens -- Chapter Five. Moody Blues -- Chapter Six. Dy(e)ing for Indigo -- Chapter Seven. At the Violet Hour -- Chapter Eight. Basic Black -- Chapter Nine. White Lies -- Chapter Ten. Gray Areas -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Color -- Psychological aspects.
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Color -- Psychological aspects. |
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Color (Philosophy) -- Social aspects.
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Color (Philosophy) |
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Social aspects. |
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General. |
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- General. |
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Lifespan Development. |
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PSYCHOLOGY -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Farthing, Stephen, 1950- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kastan, David Scott. On color. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018] 9780300171877 (OCoLC)1005127035 |
| ISBN |
9780300235425 (ebook) |
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0300235429 (ebook) |
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9780300249842 (ebook) |
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0300249845 (ebook) |
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9780300171877 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0300171870 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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