Luminous and the Grey (Batchelor David)(Paperback)

Color surrounds us: the lush green hues of trees and grasses, the variant blues of water and the sky, the bright pops of yellow and red from flowers. But at the same time, color lies at the limits of language and understanding. In this absorbing sequel to Chromophobia--which addresses the extremes of love and loathing provoked by color since antiquity--David Batchelor charts color's more ambiguous terrain.
The Luminous and the Grey explores the places where color comes into being and where it fades away, probing when it begins and when it ends both in the imagination and in the material world. Batchelor draws on neuroscience, philosophy, novels, films, and artists' writings--as well as his own experience as an artist working with color--to understand how we see and use colors. He considers the role of color in creation myths, industrial chemistry, and optics, and
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