2000
David Batchelor
Published by Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861890740
In Chromophobia, David Batchelor analyses the history of, and motivations behind, chromophobia, from its beginnings through examples of nineteenth-century literature, twentieth-century architecture and film, to Pop art, minimalism and the art and architecture of the present day.
Batchelor suggests how colour fits, or fails to fit, into the cultural imagination of the West, exploring such diverse themes as Melville's 'great white whale', Le Corbusier's 'Journey to the East', Huxley's experiments with mescaline, Dorothy's travels in the Land of Oz and the implications of modern artists' experiments with industrial paints and materials.
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