My Account Log in

3 options

Colour matters : exploring chromatic materialities in the long nineteenth century (1798-1914)

DOAB Directory of Open Access Books Available online

View online

OAPEN Available online

View online

Open Book Publishers Available online

View online
Format:
Book
Contributor:
Evangelista, Stefano, 1974- editor.
Ribeyrol, Charlotte, editor.
Winterbottom, Matthew, editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Pigments--History.
Pigments.
Colors--History.
Colors.
Color--Social aspects--History.
Color.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Open Book Publishers, 2026.
Contents:
Introduction: Colour Materiality in the Nineteenth Century / Stefano Evangelista, Charlotte Ribeyrol, Matthew Winterbottom
‘Nature Is so Much Better than Dyeing […] You Cannot Get the Same Colour’: Colourful Feathers, Nature and Artifice in the Age of Empires / Ariane Fennetaux
Chrome Yellow: American Mineral, American Fancy / Kirsten Travers Moffitt
Wavelengths and Potato Starch: The (Im)material in Colour Photography / Nathalie Boulouch
Whitewashing the Wards? Colour, Health, and Victorian Hospital Interiors / Kay Simpson
From Hysteria to Healing: Félix Vallotton’s Bon Marché and the Ambiguous Nature of Colour in Fin-de-Siècle Culture / Alessandra Ronetti
Masculinities, Colour, Dyeing and the Design of Tweeds 1829–1914 / Fiona Anderson
The Queerly Racialised Colours of Religion and Decadence at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge / Dominic Janes
‘The Look of Measurement’: Colour and Sight in Victor Fulconis’s Depictions of the Indo-Caribbean in Martinique, 1883 / Helena Neimann Erikstrup
Annotating Syme: Nineteenth-Century Marks and Marginalia in Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1814/1821) / Joyce Dixon
Between Heritage, Militaria and Concept: The Magenta Case / Marie-Anne Sarda
The Hayters and the Controversy on Colour / Giulia Simonini
John Ruskin’s Painting Materials: A Quest for Durable Colour between Industry and Nature / Tea Ghigo
‘Rather revolution than evolution’: Chinese White and Watercolour Painting Techniques in England 1850-1880 / Fiona Mann
Colour on Trial: Concerns about the Quality of Artists’ Pigments / Kathrin Kinseher
Epilogue: From Pigments to Pixel / Arnaud Dubois
ISBN:
1-80511-754-8
1-80511-755-6
9781805117551

The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.

Find

Home Release notes

My Account

Shelf Request an item Bookmarks Fines and fees Settings

Guides

Using the Find catalog Using Articles+ Using your account