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