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| #759142 in eBooks | 2011-06-16 | 2011-06-16 | File type: PDF||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Color into Context|By M. Bowman|In Chromophobia, David Batchelor discusses a phenomenon many of us are unaware exists--the fear of color. He claims it is prevalent in Western societies. Basically, the color white stands for "good" and all other colors encroach on "goodness," threatening a fall into "evil" and "immorality." Color has been the object of our prejudice despite us b||
"A thorough and witty cultural history of color."
The central argument of "Chromophobia" is that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or contamination through colour - lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge colour, either by making it the property of some 'foreign body' - the oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, or the pathological - or by relegating it to the realm of the superficial, the supplementary, the inessentia...
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