Colour /

Colour / edited by David Batchelor - London : Whitechapel, 2008. - 238 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - Documents of contemporary art . - Documents of contemporary art .

Includes bibliographical references and index

This chronology of writings from Baudelaire to Baudrillard traces how artists have affirmed color as a space of pure sensation, embraced it as a tool of revolution or denounced it as decorative and even decadent. It establishes color as a central theme in the story of modern and contemporary art and provides a fascinating handbook to the definitions and debates around its history, meaning, and use

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Color in art
Art, Modern
Theory of art