A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry

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Alexandra Loske (Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton, UK) Carole P. Biggam (University of Glasgow, UK)

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry

Alexandra Loske (Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton, UK), Carole P. Biggam (University of Glasgow, UK), Kirsten Wolf (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

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Bloomsbury Academic
31 August 2022

History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Fashion design & theory; Social & cultural history

Series: The Cultural Histories Series

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920, when the world embraced color like never before. Inventions, such as steam power, lithography, photography, electricity, motor cars, aviation, and cheaper color printing, all contributed to a new exuberance about color. Available pigments and colored products - made possible by new technologies, industrial manufacturing, commercialization, and urbanization – also greatly increased, as did illustrated printed literature for the mass market. Color, both literally and metaphorically, was splashed around, and became an expressive tool for artists, designers, and writers.

Color shapes an individual’s experience of the world and also how society gives particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Color examines how color has been created, traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5000 years. The themes covered in each volume are color philosophy and science; color technology and trade; power and identity; religion and ritual; body and clothing; language and psychology; literature and the performing arts; art; architecture and interiors; and artefacts.

Alexandra Loske is Curator at the Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton, UK Volume 5 in the Cultural History of Color set.

General Editors: Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten Wolf

Edited by: Alexandra Loske (Royal Pavilion and Museums Brighton UK)
Series edited by: Carole P. Biggam (University of Glasgow UK), Kirsten Wolf (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 248mm, Width: 172mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 740g
ISBN: 9781474273350
ISBN 10: 1474273351
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 31 August 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alexandra Loske is an art historian and curator. She is an Associate Tutor at the University of Sussex, UK, and holds a curatorial post at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, UK.