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Creator:
Dootson, Kirsty Sinclair
Title(s):
The rainbow's gravity : colour, materiality and British modernity / Kirsty Sinclair Dootson.
Published/Created:
London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2023.
New Haven : Yale University Press
©2023
Physical Description:
vii, 224 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 27 cm
Holdings:
Reference Library
N7432.7 .D66 2023 (LC)
Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-213) and index.
Subject Terms:
Color -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Color -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Color -- Social aspects.
Color in art.
Color in art.
Color.
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Great Britain.
Intellectual life.
Form/Genre:
History.
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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.