Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Anders Steinvall is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at the Department of Language Studies, Umeå University, Sweden.
Sarah Street is Professor of Film at the University of Bristol, UK. In 2019 she was awarded the Turner Medal by the Colour Group (GB).
A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to the present, a time of extraordinary developments in colour science, philosophy, art, design and technologies. The expansion of products produced with synthetic dyes was accelerated by mass consumerism as artists, designers, architects, writers, theater and filmmakers made us a ‘color conscious’ society. This influenced what we wore, how we chose to furnish and decorate our homes, and how we responded to the vibrancy and chromatic eclecticism of contemporary visual cultures.The volume brings together research on how philosophers, scientists, linguists and artists debated color’s polyvalence, its meaning to different cultures, and how it could be measured, manufactured, manipulated and enjoyed.
Color shapes an individual’s experience of the world and also how society gives particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Color examines how color has been created, traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5000 years. The themes covered in each volume are color philosophy and science; color technology and trade; power and identity; religion and ritual; body and clothing; language and psychology; literature and the performing arts; art; architecture and interiors; and artefacts.
Anders Steinvall is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at Umeå University, Sweden. Sarah Street is Professor of Film at the University of Bristol, UK.
Volume 6 in the Cultural History of Color set.
General Editors: Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten Wolf
VOLUME 6: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF COLOR IN THE MODERN AGE
Edited by Sarah Street, University of Bristol, UK, & Anders Steinvall, Umeå University, Sweden
1. Color Philosophy and Science, Jacob Browning and Zed Adams
2. Color Technology and Trade, Stephen Westland and Qianqian Pan
3. Power and Identity, Zena O’Connor
4. Religion and Ritual: The Modern Religio-colorscape, Urmila Mohan
5. Body and Clothing, Tracy Cassidy
6. Language and Psychology, Galina V. Paramei and David L. Bimler
7. Literature and the Performing Arts, Nicholas Gaskill, Sarah Street, & Joshua Yumibe
8. Art, Judith Mottram
9. Architecture and Interiors, Juan Serra
10. Artefacts, Kelly F. Wright
The Cultural Histories are multi-volume sets that survey the social and cultural construction of specific subjects across six historical periods, broadly:
- Antiquity
- The Medieval Age
- The Early Modern Age
- The Age of Enlightenment
- The Age of Empire
- The Modern Age
The subjects covered range from Animals to Dress and Fashion, from Sport to Furniture, from Money to Fairy Tales. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters so that readers may gain an understanding of a period by reading an entire volume, or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Each six-volume set is illustrated.
Titles are available as printed sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
PRAISE FOR THE SERIES
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion
“Intriguing, surprising, and thought-provoking essays covering many cultural layers of dress history.”
CHOICE
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales
“A comprehensive treatise that belongs in every academic library concerned with a form of literature that has had broad appeal for centuries and continues to do so.”
CHOICE
A Cultural History of Hair
“A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair.”
Times Literary Supplement
A Cultural History of Law
“These introductions should be of great use to scholars from across the periods.”
Law & Literature
A Cultural History of Peace
“The set is a good introduction to the study of peace and encourages looking at world history in a new way.”
CHOICE
A Cultural History of Theatre
“All six volumes are aesthetically attractive, with well-chosen cover illustrations in color and numerous halftones throughout. Page layouts with wide margins, good paper, subtitles, generous bibliographies, notes, and index all add to the appeal.”
CHOICE
A Cultural History of Tragedy
“A highly contemporary work, alert to politics, social theory and sexuality.”
London Review of Books
A Cultural History of Western Empires
“Students seeking a comparative, interdisciplinary, and compelling account of the spread of Western empires will find much of interest here.”
CHOICE
A Cultural History of Work
“[Programs] such as economics, American and world history, women’s studies, and art history will benefit from the information herein.”
American Reference Books Annual
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Anders Steinvall is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at the Department of Language Studies, Umeå University, Sweden.
Sarah Street is Professor of Film at the University of Bristol, UK. In 2019 she was awarded the Turner Medal by the Colour Group (GB).