Catalog of an exhibition held at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino and GAM, Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Turin, Italy, March 14-July 23, 2017. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
A color that is a form of thinking / Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev -- The sense of color, midway between world, body, and brain / Vittorio Gallese and Martina Ardizzi -- Synesthesia and the autonomy of color / Richard E. Cytowic -- As red as time itself / Elena Volpato -- Hopeless stillness, vibrating colors and forms of hope / Elif Kamisli -- "They needed coloured fire, and had only ground earths" : the illustrations for Thought-Forms / Pietro Rigolo -- Translucent fore-images : glowing through painting / Bracha L. Ettinger -- Fragments of colors : an homage / Marcella Beccaria --Color and slavery / Michael Taussig -- Color goes electric / Claire Lehmann -- Exhibited works and anthology -- Artists and list of exhibited works.
Summary:
The book investigates the use of color in art through artistic movements and research that stand apart from canonical histories on color and abstraction, with multiple accounts relating to memory, politics, spirituality, storytelling, psychology and synesthesia. By analyzing the different color theories that gradually took shape in the turbulent socio-political context that characterized the 20th century, Emotions of Color in Art reflects on a perspective that considers light, its vibrations and the world of emotions, while challenging the standardization of the use of color in the modern age (synthetic colors) and the digital era (RGB colors offered by various online palettes), a leveling that considerably reduces our ability to distinguish colors in the real world.--Provided by the publisher.
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