ON COLOR

Kastan and Farthing, a scholar and a painter, investigate color from numerous perspectives: literary, historical, cultural, anthropo logical, philosophical, art historical, political, and scientific. In ten wide-ranging chapters, each devoted to a different color, they examine the various ways colors have shaped and continue to shape our social and moral imaginations. Each individual color beco mes the focal point for a consideration of one of the extraordinary ways in which color appears and matters in our lives. Beautifull y produce...[Read more]