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Chromophobia
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David Batchelor, Batchelor, David

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…

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The Luminous and the Grey
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David Batchelor, Batchelor, David

Colour is a given of most peoples everyday lives, but at the same time it lies at the limits of language and understanding. David Batchelors previous book for Reaktion, Chromophobia, addressed the extremes of love and loathing that colour has provoked since antiquity. This book charts more ambiguous terrain. The Luminous and the Grey is a study of the places where colour comes into being and w…

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