| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Polygons: Cultural diversities and intersections ; v. 15 |
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Polygons ; v. 15.
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| Contents |
Ad Reinhardt: 'color blinds' / Michael Corris -- The eye is a sphincter, or who's afraid of the postmodern monochrome? / Antony Hudek -- Colour soundings: after the tone of Francis Bacon / Nicholas Chare -- Colour as a bridge between art and science / Mary Pearce -- Colour in gardens: a question of class or gender? / Beverley Lear -- Creating a middle ground: critical remarks on the colour/ form relation / Kiki Karatheodoris -- Heidegger's pixel: digital colour as 'standing reserve' / Chris Horrocks -- The disillusion of the image: cinematography, colour, sound and desire / Liz Watkins -- Chromatic ambivalence: colouring the albino / Charlotte Baker -- Toussaint Louverture and Haitian historiography: a pigmentocratic approach / Charles Forsdick -- 'Linda Morenita': skin colour, beauty and the politics of mestizaje in Mexico / Monica Moreno Figueroa |
| Summary |
"Colour permeates contemporary visual and material culture and affects our senses beyond the superficial encounter by infiltrating our perceptions and memories and becoming deeply rooted in thought processes that categorise and divide along culturally constructed lines. Colour exists as a cultural as well as psycho-physical phenomenon and acquires a multitude of meanings within differing historical and cultural contexts. The contributors examine how colour becomes imbued with specific symbolic and material meanings that tint our constructions of race, gender, ideal bodies, the relationship of the self to others and of the self to technology and the built environment. By highlighting the relationship of colour across media and material culture, this volume reveals the complex interplay of cultural connotations, discursive practices and socio-psychological dynamics of colour in an international context."-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Cultural Studies (General), History (General), Sociology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Human skin color.
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Color -- Psychological aspects.
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Color -- Cross-cultural studies
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Visual anthropology.
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Material culture.
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material culture (discipline)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Color
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Color -- Psychological aspects
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Human skin color
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Material culture
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Visual anthropology
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Horrocks, Chris (Associate professor in art history), editor.
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| LC no. |
2011041506 |
| ISBN |
9780857454652 |
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085745465X |
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