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Dootson, Kirsty Sinclair

The rainbow's gravity : colour, materiality and British modernity

2023

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The rainbow's gravity : colour, materiality and British modernity /, London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2023, Yale Center for British Art.




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Introduction: The rainbow's gravity -- The texture of capitalism: oil painting and industrialisation of the Nineteenth century -- The complexion of the chromolithograph: colouring skin in late Victorian print -- Modern women, moden colours: Madame Yevonde and the feminisation of photography between the wars -- Decolonising in technicolor: chromatic imperialism and post-war colour cinema in Britain and India -- The BBC's colour problem: race, migration and colour television in the 1960s -- Coda: neon futures.

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