Chromophobia

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Chromophobia

David Batchelor

Art Criticism/Theory/Philosophy

Chromophobia (and excellent title by the way) is an intriguing art essay on the ways which colors have been used, misused, and disregarded within art. David Batchelor is an engaging author—at one a storyteller and a critic of the art world today. For instance, as he muses about attending a party where the house is engulfed in white and rampant sterility he states:

“In particular it was a world that would remind you, there and then, in an instant, of everything you were not, everything you had failed to become, everything you might as well never bother to get around to doing because everything was made to seem somehow beyond reach.”

Color is akin to life and Batchelor reflects how its presence is intimidating fleeting and alive. Without it we simply are in doubt, unstable, and removed from the context of our own existence.

S. Clark

Kristen's Note: we don't have this title but we do have Batchelor's newest work, Colour and well as many other books on the subject of the psychological aspects of color.