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On Color
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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Summary
Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color's ubiquity, we don't know much about it. Authors David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing offer a fresh and imaginative exploration of one of the most intriguing and least-understood aspects of everyday experience.
Kastan and Farthing, a scholar and a painter, investigate color from numerous perspectives: literary, historical, cultural, anthropological, philosophical, art historical, political, and scientific. In 10 wide-ranging chapters, each devoted to a different color, they examine the various ways colors have shaped and continue to shape our social and moral imaginations. Each individual color becomes the focal point for a consideration of one of the extraordinary ways in which color appears and matters in our lives. This is a remarkably smart, entertaining, and fascinating guide to an elusive topic.
Ranging from Homer to Picasso to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant audiobook awakens us anew to the role of color in our world.
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- Grace Ryagard
- 04-10-21
informative and fascinating
great insights and facts with a very pleasant voice leading you through the spectrum journey.
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- Lovkush Agarwal
- 01-09-19
Ok. A pleasant tour of various different topics
Solid reading, but not outstanding. I would recommend this to people who are generally curious. I learnt several interesting anecdotes and facts about physics, politics, etymology, history, philosophy, etc. Best part for me personally is gaining seeds of insights into history of modern art, as the relevance of several famous pieces were discussed.
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- Reilsky
- 20-02-22
Tired of books that moralise at you?
This book is very interesting and well written but it digresses many times into moralistic opinions dressed up as facts. Many books these days suffer from this.
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- ogara_j
- 15-07-22
colour from a different perspective
This covered things I'd never have thought of. Needs more than one listening to fully take on board various concepts. Further research and looking at images would make this 5 star overall for me.
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- Margaret Moore
- 28-12-23
Loved the information and the way it was categorised and broken down … fascinating
I didn’t like the monotone narration which also mispronounced some of the artists names. Very robotic delivery.
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- M Robinson
- 30-07-21
Interesting subject, monotonous delivery
Concise compilation of everything you might like to know about colour. This book covers; the scientific basics of colour and light; the historical prominence of colours; international meanings attributed to colours; cultural, literary and artistic uses of colour; and so much more.
I did find the narrator monotonous and dreary, but you can't have everything.
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- Ms. L. J. Pantrey
- 29-08-21
Preferred Kassia St Clair
The reading is robotic and the 'story' devoid of passion about the subject matter.
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- susan c.
- 24-02-23
Not long enough !
I really learnt a lot and would probably listen to it again in the future
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- Sally S.
- 12-10-22
A book of nothing
This book is an example of how to use words to say nothing.
The narrator's monotone voice didn't help with the endless repartition of words.
There are some third party quotes which are interesting and the book has raised my awareness to colour.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-09-21
A waste of time
Violets aren't blue
Roses aren't red
Colors arn't real
It's all in your head
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