Description
Chromocopia is a provocative meditation on colour and the meanings we attach to it. Conceived as a companion to Chromophobia, David Batchelor turns from colour as an abstract idea to the histories, associations and contradictions of individual colours. Across chapters devoted to reds, yellows, blues, greens, blacks, whites and greys, he draws on an extraordinary range of artists, writers, philosophers, architects and musicians to show how colour has been understood, celebrated, feared and contested. Written with clarity and insight by an artist whose own work is rooted in colour, this book argues that no colour possesses a fixed meaning and that every claim about colour can be challenged by another. In doing so, David Batchelor invites readers to reconsider their own perceptions and the limits of language itself.
