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Johns Hopkins University | AS.010.348

Speaking of Color

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A critical survey of modernism through the lens of color, drawing upon a broad array of writings by artists, art critics and art historians, critical theorists, and philosophers. At issue here is the inherent relationality of colored phenomena. How, we will ask, has writing about color served to allegorize broader conceptions of knowledge formation, subjectivity, and collectivity under modernism? How has color been assigned to or associated rhetorically with various social and political others? And what kind of work has color been asked to do in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; postcolonial theory; and even ecocriticism? Among our readings: Goethe, Le Corbusier, Duchamp, Wittgenstein, Kristeva, Cavell, Morton, Taussig.

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