Few phenomena raise such irritating questions concerning aesthetic
experience and cultural perception as color. Whether understood
historically or symbolically, ideologically or physiologically,
color is one of the rare categories to be properly trans-disciplinary
in character. There is color in both a painting and a symphony,
a piece of text and a film. But how may color in the visual arts
be related to, indeed translated into, color in the fields of —
let’s say — literature or music? By which means do contemporary
artistic practices investigate, but also destabilize, habits and
frameworks that govern the perception and presentation of color
in a given time or place? Which are the cultural ramifications of
the specific medium in which color appear? And what, pray, is chromophobia?
Addressing these and other issues,
Re: the Rainbow presents six different takes on color, culture,
and other curiosities. Multifarious yet distinct, far-reaching in
scope but palpable in effect, the volume gathers contributions by
artists Tacita Dean and Spencer Finch, as well as scholars David
Batchelor, Aris Fioretos, Michail Iampolski and Fay Zika.
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