On Color
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Robertson Dean
About this listen
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 10 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 audiobook awakens us anew to the role of color in our world.
©2018 David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.What listeners say about On Color
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- 22-01-2019
Highly recommended
Any audiobook that talks about visual art is very tricky. Quite often, it loses meaning or impact precisely because of its audio format.
Not this one.
I thoroughly enjoyed it. Robertson Dean did a great job as a narrator.
Based on seven rainbow spectrum colours, (and white, black, grey), the author gives us a plenty of fascinating stories about this intriguing visual sensation.
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