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Cultures of colour : visual, material, textual /

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...

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Другие авторы: Horrocks, Chris
Формат: Printed Book
Язык:English
Опубликовано: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Редактирование:1st ed.
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Итог: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 t.
Объем:vii, 188 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Библиография:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780857454645 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780857454652 (ebook)