Description: Specialists from anthropology, psychology, cinematography, art history and linguistics explore colour in relation to light and movement, memory and landscape, language and narrative, in case studies in Australia, British Columbia, Russia and the UK. What becomes apparent, is the important role of colours in socializing the world.
Review Quotes:
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
subjectivities and 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