Colour

Whether it is scooped up off the palette, deployed as propaganda, or
opens the doors of perception, color is central to art not only as an element but as
an idea. This unique anthology reflects on the aesthetic, cultural, and
philosophical meaning of color through the writings of artists and critics, placed
within the broader context of anthropology, film, philosophy, literature, and
science. Those who loathe color have had as much to say as those who love it. This
chronology of writings from Baudelaire to Baudrillard traces how artists have
affirmed color as a space of pure sensation, embraced it as a tool of revolution or
denounced it as decorative and even decadent. It establishes color as a central
theme in the story of modern and contemporary art and provides a fascinating
handbook to the definitions and debates around its history, meaning, and use.Artists
surveyed include: Joseph Albers, Mel Bochner, Daniel Buren, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Robert
Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Jimmie Durham, Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Gauguin, Donald
Judd, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Yves Klein, Kazimir Malevich, Piero Manzoni,
Henri Matisse, Henri Michaux, Beatriz Milhazes, Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman,
Kenneth Noland, Hélio Oiticica, Paul Signac, Ad Reinhardt, Gerhard Richter,
Aleksandr Rodchenko, Bridget Riley, Mark Rothko, Yinka Shonibare, Jessica
Stockholder, Theo van Doesburg, Vincent van Gogh, Victor Vasarely, Rachel
Whiteread.Writers include: Theodor Adorno, Roland Barthes, Charles Baudelaire, Jean
Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Charles Blanc, Jacques Derrida, Thierry de Duve,
Umberto Eco, Victoria Finlay, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Johannes Itten, Julia Kristeva,
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, John Ruskin,
Adrian Stokes, Ludwig Wittgenstein