Rematerializing Colour :From Concept to Substance

Rematerializing Colour

Rematerializing Colour :From Concept to Substance

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Colour is largely assumed to be already in the world, a natural universal that everyone, everywhere understands. Yet cognitive scientists routinely tell us that colour is an illusion, and a private one for each of us; neither social nor material, it is held to be a product of individual brains and eyes rather than an aspect of things. This collection seeks to challenge these assumptions and examine their far-reaching consequences, arguing that colour is about practical involvement in the world, not a finalized set of theories, and getting to know colour is relative to the situation one is in - both ecologically and environmentally. Specialists from the fields of anthropology, psychology, cinematography, art history and linguistics explore the depths of colour in relation to light and movement, memory and landscape, language and narrative, in case studies with an emphasis on Australian First Peoples, but ranging as far afield as Russia and First Nations in British Columbia. What becomes apparent, is not only the complex but important role of colours in socializing the world; but also that the concept of colour only exists in some times and cultures. It should not be forgotten that the Munsell Chart, with its construction of colours as mathematical coordinates of hues, value and chroma, is not an abstraction of universals, as often claimed, but is itself a cultural artefact.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781907774256
ISBN10 1907774254
Number Of Pages 266
Item Weight 578 g
Product Dimensions 140 x 216 x 21 mm
Publisher / Reseller Sean Kingston Publishing
Format hardback
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This is a very beautiful book, replete with the insightful essays that the topic demands. It will change the way you think about colour. In a brilliant paradox, it challenges the very existence of colours only to bring colour back into the centre of human lives. This volume weaves an argument that cuts across history, art and time; Howard Morphy, Distinguished Professor, Australian National University College of Arts & Social Sciences;Rematerializing Colour leaves any understanding of colour as an add-on or surface phenomenon behind. Embracing colours as dynamic, transformative materialities inherent to a multitude of experiences, environments and things, and to the formation of subjectivitiesand collective identities, contributors' essays are centred upon colours' mutable, palpable,excessive and affectively charged capacities and effects;Patricia Spyer, Professor of Anthropology & Sociology,The Graduate Institute, Geneva.

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Author's Bio

Diana Young (Editor) is Director of the Masters in Museum Studies Programme at the University of Queensland. She was Director of the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum for eight years.

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