by Michael Taussig
- Auteur(s)
- Michael Taussig
- Uitgever, jaar
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2009
- Omvang
- 294 p., geïllustreerd, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780226790060
This book uses color to explore further dimensions of what Taussig calls “the bodily unconscious". Drawing on classic ethnography as well as the work of Benjamin, Burroughs, and Proust, he takes up the notion that color invites the viewer into images and into the world. Yet, as Taussig makes clear, color has a history- a manifestly colonial history rooted in the West’s discomfort with color, especially bright color, and its associations with the so-called primitive. Taussig reconsiders colonialism as a tension between chromophobes and chromophiliacs. And he ends with the strange story of coal, which, he argues, displaced colonial color by giving birth to synthetic colors, organic chemistry, and IG Farben, the giant chemical corporation behind the Third Reich.
- Locatie in de bibliotheek
- Kast 29 - 4: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; zwarte kunst en cultuur
- Opmerkingen
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
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