Over the past thirty years, visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig has crafted a highly distinctive body of work. Playful, enthralling, and whip-smart, his writing makes ingenious connections between ideas, thinkers, and things. An extended meditation on the mysteries of color and the fascination they provoke, What Color Is the Sacred? is the next step on Taussig’s remarkable intellectual path.
Following his interest in magic and surrealism, his earlier work on mimesis, and his recent discussion of heat, gold, and cocaine in My Cocaine Museum,this book uses color to explore further dimensions of what Taussig calls “the bodily unconscious” in an age of global warming. Drawing on classic ethnography as well as the work of Benjamin, Burroughs, and Proust, he takes up the notion that color invites the viewer into images and into the world. Yet, as Taussig makes clear, color has a history—a manifestly colonial history rooted in the West’s discomfort with color, especially bright color, and its associations with the so-called primitive. He begins by noting Goethe’s belief that Europeans are physically averse to vivid color while the uncivilized revel in it, which prompts Taussig to reconsider colonialism as a tension between chromophobes and chromophiliacs. And he ends with the strange story of coal, which, he argues, displaced colonial color by giving birth to synthetic colors, organic chemistry, and IG Farben, the giant chemical corporation behind the Third Reich.
Nietzsche once wrote, “So far, all that has given colour to existence still lacks a history.” With What Color Is the Sacred? Taussig has taken up that challenge with all the radiant intelligence and inspiration we’ve come to expect from him.
Michael Taussig is 1933 Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, USA, and is affiliated with the European Graduate School in Switzerland.
工作日午睡醒來,靠在窗邊藉著日光,翻看作者對顔色曆史細細剖析,挺像那麼迴事的。 對某種顔色的偏好,應該是天生的,比如藍色之於我。 - 顔色與性彆 當代人眼中的顔色與性彆的搭配模式,應該是戰後物資短缺,齣於快速推廣的壓力纔展開的。比如紅色和藍色,並不一定對應女性和...
評分工作日午睡醒來,靠在窗邊藉著日光,翻看作者對顔色曆史細細剖析,挺像那麼迴事的。 對某種顔色的偏好,應該是天生的,比如藍色之於我。 - 顔色與性彆 當代人眼中的顔色與性彆的搭配模式,應該是戰後物資短缺,齣於快速推廣的壓力纔展開的。比如紅色和藍色,並不一定對應女性和...
評分工作日午睡醒來,靠在窗邊藉著日光,翻看作者對顔色曆史細細剖析,挺像那麼迴事的。 對某種顔色的偏好,應該是天生的,比如藍色之於我。 - 顔色與性彆 當代人眼中的顔色與性彆的搭配模式,應該是戰後物資短缺,齣於快速推廣的壓力纔展開的。比如紅色和藍色,並不一定對應女性和...
評分工作日午睡醒來,靠在窗邊藉著日光,翻看作者對顔色曆史細細剖析,挺像那麼迴事的。 對某種顔色的偏好,應該是天生的,比如藍色之於我。 - 顔色與性彆 當代人眼中的顔色與性彆的搭配模式,應該是戰後物資短缺,齣於快速推廣的壓力纔展開的。比如紅色和藍色,並不一定對應女性和...
評分工作日午睡醒來,靠在窗邊藉著日光,翻看作者對顔色曆史細細剖析,挺像那麼迴事的。 對某種顔色的偏好,應該是天生的,比如藍色之於我。 - 顔色與性彆 當代人眼中的顔色與性彆的搭配模式,應該是戰後物資短缺,齣於快速推廣的壓力纔展開的。比如紅色和藍色,並不一定對應女性和...
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