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020			_a9781780232805
100			_aBatchelor, David _97933
245		4	_aThe Luminous and the Grey/ _cDavid Batchelor
260			_aLondon; _bReaktion Books; _c2014
300			_a112p; _c21x15cm
520			_aThe Luminous and the Grey explores the places where color comes into being and where it fades away, probing when it begins and when it ends both in the imagination and in the material world. Batchelor draws on neuroscience, philosophy, novels, films, and artists’ writings—as well as his own experience as an artist working with color—to understand how we see and use colors. He considers the role of color in creation myths, industrial chemistry, and optics, and examines the particular forms of luminosity that saturate the modern city. Following this inquiry into the hues that we face every day, he turns to one that is both color and noncolor: grey itself, which he reveals is as much a mood, feeling, and existential condition as a shade that we experience with our eyes.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aN8350-8356 Art as a profession. Artists
942			_cBK
999			_c5690 _d5690