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Colour / edited by David Batchelor.

Contributor(s): Series: Documents of contemporary art seriesPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2008.Description: 238 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780262524810
  • 0262524813
  • 9780854881604
  • 0854881603
Subject(s):
Contents:
On colour and colours: 1846-2007 -- The salon of 1846 [1846] / Charles Baudelaire -- The elements of drawing [1857] / John Ruskin -- The life and work of Eugène Delacroix [1863] / Charles Baudelaire -- The grammar of painting and engraving [1867] / Charles Blanc -- On shades of grey [1882] / Vincent van Gogh -- Titles of monochrome works [1883-84] / Alphonse Allais -- The whiteness of the whale [1851] / Herman Melville -- A season in hell [1873] / Arthur Rimbaud -- On colour [1893] / Gustave Moreau -- Against nature [1884] / Joris-Karl Huysmans -- Degeneration [1892] / Max Nordau -- Notes on colour [1896-98] / Paul Gauguin -- The education of the eye [1899] / Paul Signac -- Cézanne [1907] / Maurice Denis -- Letter on Cézanne [1907] / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Notes of a painter [1908] / Henri Matisse -- An essay in aesthetics [1909] / Roger Fry -- Futurist painting: technical manifesto [1910] / Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Rusolo, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini -- Concerning the spiritual in art [1911] / Wassily Kandinsky -- The decline of the West [1918] / Oswald Spengler -- A child's view of colour [1914-15] / Walter Benjamin -- Aphorisms on imagination and colour [1914-15] / Walter Benjamin -- The aesthetic hypothesis [1914] / Clive Bell -- Cubism [1912] / Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger -- To Maximovirch Minsky [1912-19] / Robert Delaunay -- The new plastic in painting [1917] / Piet Mondrian -- Purism [1920] / Charles-Édouard Jeanneret [Le Corbusier], Amédée Ozenfant -- Non-objective art and Suprematism [1919] / Kazimir Malevich -- The Realistic manifesto [1920] / Naum Gabo, Anton Pevsner -- Line [1921] / Aleksandr Rodchenko -- On modern art [1924] / Paul Klee -- A coat of whitewash: the law of Ripolin [1925] / Charles-Édouard Jeanneret [Le Corbusier] -- Space-time and colour [1928] / Theo van Doesburg -- Towards white painting [1929] / Theo van Doesburg -- Note on Orphism [c.1928-30] / Robert Delaunay -- Photography versus painting [1926] / Osip Brik -- The archetypes and the collective unconscious [1934] / Carl [Gustav] Jung -- Colour and form [1937] / Adrian Stokes -- Objective Impressionism [c.1940-41] / Mark Rothko -- On monumentality and colour [1943] / Fernand Léger -- The role and modalities of colour [1945] / Henri Matisse -- Black is a colour [1946] / Henri Matisse -- On colour [1942] / Sergei Eisenstein -- Philosophical investigations [1945-49] / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Remarks on colour [1950] / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Colour [1948] / Bernard Berenson -- Reflections on colour [1981] / Carlos Cruz-Diez -- Notes for a manifesto [1955] / Victor Vasarely -- The doors of perception [1954] / Aldous Huxley -- With mescaline [1956] / Henri Michaux -- War between line and colour [1954] / Yves Klein -- The evolution of art towards the immaterial [1959] / Yves Klein -- Free dimension [1960] / Piero Manzoni -- Plastic [1957] / Roland Barthes -- Andy Warhol [1963] / Donald Judd -- Frontiers of space [1962] / Barnett Newman -- Colour, time and structure [1960] / Hélio Oiticica -- Interaction of colour [1963] / Josef Albers -- Interview with Henry Geldzahler [1965] / Helen Frankenthaler -- On colour [1966] / Sonia Delaunay -- Painting in colour [1966] / Jules Olitski -- Notes on sculpture [1966] / Robert Morris -- Black as symbol and concept [1967] / Ad Reinhardt -- On Who's afraid of red, yellow and blue [1969] / Barnett Newman -- Beware! [1969] / Daniel Buren -- Eye and mind [1960] / Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- The elements of colour [1961] / Johannes Itten -- The raw and the cooked [1964] / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- The crystal land [1966] / Robert Smithson -- Metaphors of vision [1963] / Stan Brakhage -- Cosmicomics [1965] / Italo Calvino -- Atmospheric values: colour [1968] / Jean Baudrillard -- Some colour terms from Gravity's rainbow [1973] / Thomas Pynchon -- The man in black [1971] / Johnny Cash -- On being blue [1976] / William H. Gass -- Colour and human response [1978] / Faber Birren -- Black as an ideal [1970] / Theodor Adorno -- The triple register of colour [1972] / Julia Kristeva -- Plato's pharmacy [1972] / Jacques Derrida -- Colour [1975] / Roland Barthes -- Cy Twombly [1979] / Roland Barthes -- A Mediterranean painting [1971] / Brice Marden -- Daybook [1974] / Anne Truitt -- Letter to E. de Wilde [1975] / Gerhard Richter -- Coliur, format and abstract art: interview with Diane Waldman [1977] / Kenneth Noland -- On line [1985] / Peter Halley -- The story of colours [1986] / Manlio Brusatin -- Camera lucia [1980] / Roland Barthes -- On [Michelangelo] Antonioni [1985] / Gilles Deleuze -- Colur and its name [1984] / Thierry de Duve -- How culture conditions the colours we see [1985] / Umberto Eco -- Colour for philosophers [1988] / C.L. Hardin -- The eloquence of colour [1989] / Jacqueline Lichtenstein -- Colour has not yet been named [1993] / Stephen Melville -- Playing with dead things: the uncanny [1993] / Mike Kelley -- Leviathan [1992] / Paul Auster -- Interview with Kathryn Hixon [1992] / Peter Halley -- Some aspects of colour in general and red and black in particular [1994] / Donald Judd -- Perception and the use of colour: interview with Ernst Gombrich [1995] / Bridget Riley -- On colour [1995] / Jessica Stockholder -- Testaments betrayed [1993] / Milan Kundera -- Chroma [1994] / Derek Jarman -- Reservoir dogs [1996] / Quentin Tarantino -- The story of colours [1996] / Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos -- Feeling blue [1997] / Owada -- On white [1997] / Yoko Ono -- At the end of the rainbow [2002] / Victoria Finlay -- Reno Dakota [2000] / Magnetic Fields -- The future of colours is looking bright [1999] / Rem Koolhaas -- Chromophobia [2000] / David Batchelor -- Interview with Jérôme Sans [2006] / Daniel Buren -- On colour [2007] / Ellsworth Kelly -- On colour [2007] / Rachel Whiteread -- On colour [2007] / Linda Besemer -- On colour [2007] / Melanie Smith -- La leçon de peinture [2007] / Beatriz Milhazes -- Colour game [2007] / David Reed -- On colour [2007] / Susan Hiller -- Notes on colour [2007] / James Welling -- On colour [2007] / Polly Apfelbaum -- Colour: imperialism, race and taste [2007] / Yinka Shonibare -- On colour [2007] / Jimmie Durham -- 'Colour is not coloured' [2007] / Pedro Cabrita Reis -- On colour [2007] / Mel Bochner -- Magic hour [2007] / Tacita Dean.
Summary: Whether it is scooped up off the palette, deployed as propaganda, or opening the doors of perception, colour is central to art. This chronological anthology reflects on the aesthetic, cultural, and philosophical meaning of colour to artists within the broader context of anthropology, film, philosophy and science. Those who loathe colour have had as much to say as those who love it. Establishing colour as a central theme in the story of modern and contemporary art, this is a handbook to the definitions and debates around its history, meaning, and use.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

On colour and colours: 1846-2007 -- The salon of 1846 [1846] / Charles Baudelaire -- The elements of drawing [1857] / John Ruskin -- The life and work of Eugène Delacroix [1863] / Charles Baudelaire -- The grammar of painting and engraving [1867] / Charles Blanc -- On shades of grey [1882] / Vincent van Gogh -- Titles of monochrome works [1883-84] / Alphonse Allais -- The whiteness of the whale [1851] / Herman Melville -- A season in hell [1873] / Arthur Rimbaud -- On colour [1893] / Gustave Moreau -- Against nature [1884] / Joris-Karl Huysmans -- Degeneration [1892] / Max Nordau -- Notes on colour [1896-98] / Paul Gauguin -- The education of the eye [1899] / Paul Signac -- Cézanne [1907] / Maurice Denis -- Letter on Cézanne [1907] / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Notes of a painter [1908] / Henri Matisse -- An essay in aesthetics [1909] / Roger Fry -- Futurist painting: technical manifesto [1910] / Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Rusolo, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini -- Concerning the spiritual in art [1911] / Wassily Kandinsky -- The decline of the West [1918] / Oswald Spengler -- A child's view of colour [1914-15] / Walter Benjamin -- Aphorisms on imagination and colour [1914-15] / Walter Benjamin -- The aesthetic hypothesis [1914] / Clive Bell -- Cubism [1912] / Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger -- To Maximovirch Minsky [1912-19] / Robert Delaunay -- The new plastic in painting [1917] / Piet Mondrian -- Purism [1920] / Charles-Édouard Jeanneret [Le Corbusier], Amédée Ozenfant -- Non-objective art and Suprematism [1919] / Kazimir Malevich -- The Realistic manifesto [1920] / Naum Gabo, Anton Pevsner -- Line [1921] / Aleksandr Rodchenko -- On modern art [1924] / Paul Klee -- A coat of whitewash: the law of Ripolin [1925] / Charles-Édouard Jeanneret [Le Corbusier] -- Space-time and colour [1928] / Theo van Doesburg -- Towards white painting [1929] / Theo van Doesburg -- Note on Orphism [c.1928-30] / Robert Delaunay -- Photography versus painting [1926] / Osip Brik -- The archetypes and the collective unconscious [1934] / Carl [Gustav] Jung -- Colour and form [1937] / Adrian Stokes -- Objective Impressionism [c.1940-41] / Mark Rothko -- On monumentality and colour [1943] / Fernand Léger -- The role and modalities of colour [1945] / Henri Matisse -- Black is a colour [1946] / Henri Matisse -- On colour [1942] / Sergei Eisenstein -- Philosophical investigations [1945-49] / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Remarks on colour [1950] / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Colour [1948] / Bernard Berenson -- Reflections on colour [1981] / Carlos Cruz-Diez -- Notes for a manifesto [1955] / Victor Vasarely -- The doors of perception [1954] / Aldous Huxley -- With mescaline [1956] / Henri Michaux -- War between line and colour [1954] / Yves Klein -- The evolution of art towards the immaterial [1959] / Yves Klein -- Free dimension [1960] / Piero Manzoni -- Plastic [1957] / Roland Barthes -- Andy Warhol [1963] / Donald Judd -- Frontiers of space [1962] / Barnett Newman -- Colour, time and structure [1960] / Hélio Oiticica -- Interaction of colour [1963] / Josef Albers -- Interview with Henry Geldzahler [1965] / Helen Frankenthaler -- On colour [1966] / Sonia Delaunay -- Painting in colour [1966] / Jules Olitski -- Notes on sculpture [1966] / Robert Morris -- Black as symbol and concept [1967] / Ad Reinhardt -- On Who's afraid of red, yellow and blue [1969] / Barnett Newman -- Beware! [1969] / Daniel Buren -- Eye and mind [1960] / Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- The elements of colour [1961] / Johannes Itten -- The raw and the cooked [1964] / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- The crystal land [1966] / Robert Smithson -- Metaphors of vision [1963] / Stan Brakhage -- Cosmicomics [1965] / Italo Calvino -- Atmospheric values: colour [1968] / Jean Baudrillard -- Some colour terms from Gravity's rainbow [1973] / Thomas Pynchon -- The man in black [1971] / Johnny Cash -- On being blue [1976] / William H. Gass -- Colour and human response [1978] / Faber Birren -- Black as an ideal [1970] / Theodor Adorno -- The triple register of colour [1972] / Julia Kristeva -- Plato's pharmacy [1972] / Jacques Derrida -- Colour [1975] / Roland Barthes -- Cy Twombly [1979] / Roland Barthes -- A Mediterranean painting [1971] / Brice Marden -- Daybook [1974] / Anne Truitt -- Letter to E. de Wilde [1975] / Gerhard Richter -- Coliur, format and abstract art: interview with Diane Waldman [1977] / Kenneth Noland -- On line [1985] / Peter Halley -- The story of colours [1986] / Manlio Brusatin -- Camera lucia [1980] / Roland Barthes -- On [Michelangelo] Antonioni [1985] / Gilles Deleuze -- Colur and its name [1984] / Thierry de Duve -- How culture conditions the colours we see [1985] / Umberto Eco -- Colour for philosophers [1988] / C.L. Hardin -- The eloquence of colour [1989] / Jacqueline Lichtenstein -- Colour has not yet been named [1993] / Stephen Melville -- Playing with dead things: the uncanny [1993] / Mike Kelley -- Leviathan [1992] / Paul Auster -- Interview with Kathryn Hixon [1992] / Peter Halley -- Some aspects of colour in general and red and black in particular [1994] / Donald Judd -- Perception and the use of colour: interview with Ernst Gombrich [1995] / Bridget Riley -- On colour [1995] / Jessica Stockholder -- Testaments betrayed [1993] / Milan Kundera -- Chroma [1994] / Derek Jarman -- Reservoir dogs [1996] / Quentin Tarantino -- The story of colours [1996] / Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos -- Feeling blue [1997] / Owada -- On white [1997] / Yoko Ono -- At the end of the rainbow [2002] / Victoria Finlay -- Reno Dakota [2000] / Magnetic Fields -- The future of colours is looking bright [1999] / Rem Koolhaas -- Chromophobia [2000] / David Batchelor -- Interview with Jérôme Sans [2006] / Daniel Buren -- On colour [2007] / Ellsworth Kelly -- On colour [2007] / Rachel Whiteread -- On colour [2007] / Linda Besemer -- On colour [2007] / Melanie Smith -- La leçon de peinture [2007] / Beatriz Milhazes -- Colour game [2007] / David Reed -- On colour [2007] / Susan Hiller -- Notes on colour [2007] / James Welling -- On colour [2007] / Polly Apfelbaum -- Colour: imperialism, race and taste [2007] / Yinka Shonibare -- On colour [2007] / Jimmie Durham -- 'Colour is not coloured' [2007] / Pedro Cabrita Reis -- On colour [2007] / Mel Bochner -- Magic hour [2007] / Tacita Dean.

Whether it is scooped up off the palette, deployed as propaganda, or opening the doors of perception, colour is central to art. This chronological anthology reflects on the aesthetic, cultural, and philosophical meaning of colour to artists within the broader context of anthropology, film, philosophy and science. Those who loathe colour have had as much to say as those who love it. Establishing colour as a central theme in the story of modern and contemporary art, this is a handbook to the definitions and debates around its history, meaning, and use.