Colour

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Writings on colour from modernism to the present, by writers from Baudelaire to Baudrillard, surveying art from Paul Gauguin to Rachel Whiteread.

Whether it is scooped up off the palette, deployed as propaganda, or opens the doors of perception, colour 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 colour through the writings of artists and critics, placed within the broader context of anthropology, film, philosophy, literature, and science. Those who loathe colour have had as much to say as those who love it. This chronology of writings from Baudelaire to Baudrillard traces how artists have affirmed colour as a space of pure sensation, embraced it as a tool of revolution or denounced it as decorative and even decadent. It establishes colour as a central theme in the story of modern and contemporary art and provides a fascinating handbook to the