Cultures of Colour - Visual, Material, Textual (Hardcover, New)


Colour permeates contemporary visual and material culture and affects our senses beyond the superficial encounter by infiltrating our perceptions and memories and becoming deeply rooted in thought processes that categorise and divide along culturally constructed lines. Colour exists as a cultural as well as psycho-physical phenomenon and acquires a multitude of meanings within differing historical and cultural contexts. The contributors examine how colour becomes imbued with specific symbolic and material meanings that tint our constructions of race, gender, ideal bodies, the relationship of the self to others and of the self to technology and the built environment. By highlighting the relationship of colour across media and material culture, this volume reveals the complex interplay of cultural connotations, discursive practices and socio-psychological dynamics of colour in an international context.

Chris Horrocks is Principal Lecturer in Art History at Kingston University. His publications include "Marshall McLuhan and Virtuality" (2000), "Baudrillard and the Millennium" (1999), "Introducing Foucault" (with Zoran Jevtic, 1997), and "Tokyo GlamRock" (edited, 2002).


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Colour permeates contemporary visual and material culture and affects our senses beyond the superficial encounter by infiltrating our perceptions and memories and becoming deeply rooted in thought processes that categorise and divide along culturally constructed lines. Colour exists as a cultural as well as psycho-physical phenomenon and acquires a multitude of meanings within differing historical and cultural contexts. The contributors examine how colour becomes imbued with specific symbolic and material meanings that tint our constructions of race, gender, ideal bodies, the relationship of the self to others and of the self to technology and the built environment. By highlighting the relationship of colour across media and material culture, this volume reveals the complex interplay of cultural connotations, discursive practices and socio-psychological dynamics of colour in an international context.

Chris Horrocks is Principal Lecturer in Art History at Kingston University. His publications include "Marshall McLuhan and Virtuality" (2000), "Baudrillard and the Millennium" (1999), "Introducing Foucault" (with Zoran Jevtic, 1997), and "Tokyo GlamRock" (edited, 2002).

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Product Details

General

Imprint

Berghahn Books

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Series

Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections

Release date

June 2012

Availability

Expected to ship within 9 - 15 working days

First published

June 2012

Editors

Dimensions

229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

196

Edition

New

ISBN-13

978-0-85745-464-5

Barcode

9780857454645

Categories

LSN

0-85745-464-1



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