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By: David Scott Kastan, Stephen Farthing
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
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Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color's ubiquity, we don't know much about it. Authors David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing offer a fresh and imaginative exploration of one of the most intriguing and least-understood aspects of everyday experience.

Kastan and Farthing, a scholar and a painter, investigate color from numerous perspectives: literary, historical, cultural, anthropological, philosophical, art historical, political, and scientific. In 10 wide-ranging chapters, each devoted to a different color, they examine the various ways colors have shaped and continue to shape our social and moral imaginations. Each individual color becomes the focal point for a consideration of one of the extraordinary ways in which color appears and matters in our lives. This is a remarkably smart, entertaining, and fascinating guide to an elusive topic.

Ranging from Homer to Picasso to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant audiobook awakens us anew to the role of color in our world.

©2018 David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Philosophy Social Sciences Inspiring Funny
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although this is a highly informative book on the subject , it's sometimes heavy to listen to and oveall has a bit starchy feel to it .

informative in its composure but dry

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A surprisingly interesting and meandering journey through colours, theory, literature, art, and philosophy. I wonder whether the issues of *people* as coloured might not have been handled with a little more sensitivity. Otherwise, this took me from Napoleon to Monet, indigo to Ishmael's whale. It was worth the listen.

A surprisingly interesting journey

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I was apprehensive going into this book, but do you contemporary references, cultural relevance, an explanation of historical context were excellent! A must read for any art teacher, student, designer. I can’t wait to reread this one!

Excellent contemporary art theory

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Loved the reading of the amazing words! I zoomed through it so quickly! Couldn’t stop listening :)

LOVE

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This is such an interesting read. Now whenever I think about specific colors I'll be thinking about this book. There's such a great deal of interesting history and really vibrant with all the color descriptions.

Utterly Fascinating

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