What Color Is the Sacred?

Name: What Color Is the Sacred?
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ISBN: 9780226790060

ISBN-10: 0226790061

ISBN-13: 9780226790060

Edition: 2009

Authors: Michael Taussig, M. Taussig, Michael T. Taussig

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Playful, enthralling, and whip-smart, Taussig's writing makes ingenious connections between ideas, thinkers, and things. An extended meditation on the mysteries of colour and the fascination they provoke, this book is the next step on his remarkable intellectual path.

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of Illustrations



Into The Image



The Face of World History



Licensed Transgression



Where Stones Walk like Men



Color as Crime



Color Walks



The Diver



Could a Cat Be a Whale?



In the Time of Lapis Lazuli



Polymorphous Magical Substance



Plasma



A Beautiful Blue Substance Flows into Me



The Red Butterfly



Color in the Colony



Administration by Bluff



Walking through Fire



Sailing through Color



Body Paint



The Instrument of Ethnographic Observation



Color and Slavery



Redeeming Indigo



Opiation of the Visual Field



Sex Appeal of the Inorganic



Color in Proust



Crossover Men



Techniques of the Body: What We Falsely Call Life



An Hour Is Not Merely an Hour



Cardiac Fatigue



What Is the Color of the Profane?



Color in Coal



Creature of the Lightless Depth



As Colors Pour from Tar



Colored by Weather


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index