[PDF] Color World Culture eBook

Author : James Fox
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 0141976667

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'Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one' Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book reveals. Each chapter immerses the reader in a single colour, drawing together stories from the histories of art and humanity to illuminate the meanings it has been given over the eras and around the globe. Showing how artists, scientists, writers, philosophers, explorers and inventors have both shaped and been shaped by these wonderfully myriad meanings, James Fox reveals how, through colour, we can better understand their cultures, as well as our own. Each colour offers a fresh perspective on a different epoch, and together they form a vivid, exhilarating history of the world. 'We have projected our hopes, anxieties and obsessions onto colour for thousands of years,' Fox writes. 'The history of colour, therefore, is also a history of humanity.'

Author : James Fox
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 125027852X

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A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color. We have an extraordinary connection to color—we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven elemental colors—black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple, and green—and uncovers behind each a root idea, based on visual resemblances and common symbolism throughout history. Through a series of stories and vignettes, the book then traces these meanings to show how they morphed and multiplied and, ultimately, how they reveal a great deal about the societies that produced them: reflecting and shaping their hopes, fears, prejudices, and preoccupations. Fox also examines the science of how our eyes and brains interpret light and color, and shows how this is inherently linked with the meanings we give to hue. And using his background as an art historian, he explores many of the milestones in the history of art—from Bronze Age gold-work to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein—in a fresh way. Fox also weaves in literature, philosophy, cinema, archaeology, and art—moving from Monet to Marco Polo, early Japanese ink artists to Shakespeare and Goethe to James Bond. By creating a new history of color, Fox reveals a new story about humans and our place in the universe: second only to language, color is the greatest carrier of cultural meaning in our world.

Author : Alison H. Deming
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1571318143

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“An anthology of nature writing by people of color, providing deeply personal connections to—or disconnects from—nature.” —NPR From African American to Asian American, indigenous to immigrant, “multiracial” to “mixed-blood,” the diversity of cultures in this world is matched only by the diversity of stories explaining our cultural origins: stories of creation and destruction, displacement and heartbreak, hope and mystery. With writing from Jamaica Kincaid on the fallacies of national myths, Yusef Komunyakaa connecting the toxic legacy of his hometown, Bogalusa, LA, to a blind faith in capitalism, and bell hooks relating the quashing of multiculturalism to the destruction of nature that is considered “unpredictable”—among more than thirty-five other examinations of the relationship between culture and nature—this collection points toward the trouble of ignoring our cultural heritage, but also reveals how opening our eyes and our minds might provide a more livable future. Contributors: Elmaz Abinader, Faith Adiele, Francisco X. Alarcón, Fred Arroyo, Kimberly Blaeser, Joseph Bruchac, Robert D. Bullard, Debra Kang Dean, Camille Dungy, Nikky Finney, Ray Gonzalez, Kimiko Hahn, bell hooks, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Pualani Kanaka’ole Kanahele, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Jamaica Kincaid, Yusef Komunyakaa, J. Drew Lanham, David Mas Masumoto, Maria Melendez, Thyllias Moss, Gary Paul Nabhan, Nalini Nadkarni, Melissa Nelson, Jennifer Oladipo, Louis Owens, Enrique Salmon, Aileen Suzara, A. J. Verdelle, Gerald Vizenor, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Al Young, Ofelia Zepeda “This notable anthology assembles thinkers and writers with firsthand experience or insight on how economic and racial inequalities affect a person’s understanding of nature . . . an illuminating read.” —Bloomsbury Review “[An] unprecedented and invaluable collection.” —Booklist

Author : Mrinal Mitra
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 2015-06-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781514269701

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This Color World Culture Volume-2 (Pre-Columbian Art & American Indian Art) extends far beyond a regular coloring book. There are thirty-six pages full of images that are both culturally rich and stunning. These images are multifunctional and can be used to create cut-outs, masks, and various other crafts. There is a synopsis about the art forms included in the volumes, complete with a brief historical footnote under each image. Overall the images are carefully chosen to inspire creativity in the minds of all the participants.

Author : Chris Horrocks
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 085745465X

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Colour permeates contemporary visual and material culture and affects our senses beyond the superficial encounter by infiltrating our perceptions and memories and becoming deeply rooted in thought processes that categorise and divide along culturally constructed lines. Colour exists as a cultural as well as psycho-physical phenomenon and acquires a multitude of meanings within differing historical and cultural contexts. The contributors examine how colour becomes imbued with specific symbolic and material meanings that tint our constructions of race, gender, ideal bodies, the relationship of the self to others and of the self to technology and the built environment. By highlighting the relationship of colour across media and material culture, this volume reveals the complex interplay of cultural connotations, discursive practices and socio-psychological dynamics of colour in an international context.

Author : MelindaJoy Mingo
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 21,91 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830887601

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How diverse are your friendships? In a time when cultural divides are expanding, we can learn to see every human from God's perspective instead of through the lenses of prejudice and bias. Through vivid stories from several countries, MelindaJoy Mingo models reaching across cultures, showing the beauty of diverse friendships.

Author : Regina Lee Blaszczyk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 3319507451

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Color is a visible technology that invisibly connects so many puzzling aspects of modern Western consumer societies—research and development, making and selling, predicting fashion trends, and more. Building on Regina Lee Blaszczyk’s go-to history of the “color revolution” in the United States, this book explores further transatlantic and multidisciplinary dimensions of the topic. Covering history from the mid nineteenth century into the immediate past, it examines the relationship between color, commerce, and consumer societies in unfamiliar settings and in the company of new kinds of experts. Readers will learn about the early dye industry, the dynamic nomenclature for color, and efforts to standardize, understand, and educate the public about color. Readers will also encounter early food coloring, new consumer goods, technical and business innovations in print and on the silver screen, the interrelationship between gender and color, and color forecasting in the fashion industry.

Author : Mari C Schuh
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1541528794

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"Celebrate color in nature, science, art, and culture with Crayola. Brightly colored photos, simple text, and fun Crayola design features come together to help readers understand and celebrate color."--

Author : Mrinal Mitra
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 41,45 MB
Release : 2020-10-02
Category :
ISBN :

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This Color World Culture, Vol. 2 (Pre-Columbian Art & American Indian Art) is far beyond a regular coloring book. There are thirty-six pages full of images that are both culturally rich and stunning. There is a synopsis about the art forms included in the volumes, complete with a brief historical footnote under each image. Besides coloring the images, participants are alao encouraged to create masks, cutouts etc., with the images where possible. Overall the images are carefully chosen to inspire creativity in the minds of all the participants.

Author : Soong-Chan Rah
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1575674971

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The United States is currently undergoing the most rapid demographic shift in its history. By 2050, white Americans will no longer comprise a majority of the population. Instead, they'll be the largest minority group in a country made up entirely of minorities, followed by Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans. Past shifts in America's demographics always reshaped the county's religious landscape. This shift will be no different. Soong-Chan Rah's book is intended to equip evangelicals for ministry and outreach in our changing nation. Borrowing from the business concept of "cultural intelligence," he explores how God's people can become more multiculturally adept. From discussions about cultural and racial histories, to reviews of case-study churches and Christian groups that are succeeding in bridging ethnic divides, Rah provides a practical and hopeful guidebook for Christians wanting to minister more effectively in diverse settings. Without guilt trips or browbeating, the book will spur individuals, churches, and parachurch ministries toward more effectively bearing witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Good News for people of every racial and cultural background. Its message is positive; its potential impact, transformative.