vii, 224 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 27 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-213) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: The rainbow's gravity -- The texture of capitalism: oil painting and industrialisation of the Nineteenth century -- The complexion of the chromolithograph: colouring skin in late Victorian print -- Modern women, moden colours: Madame Yevonde and the feminisation of photography between the wars -- Decolonising in technicolor: chromatic imperialism and post-war colour cinema in Britain and India -- The BBC's colour problem: race, migration and colour television in the 1960s -- Coda: neon futures.
Subject Terms:
Color in art. | Color -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. | Color -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. | Color. | Color in art. | Color -- Social aspects. | Intellectual life. | Great Britain.