The Rainbow's Gravity: Colour, Materiality and British Modernity Dootson Kirsty Sinclair
The Rainbow's Gravity: Colour, Materiality and British Modernity Dootson Kirsty Sinclair From Victorian breakthroughs in synthesising pigments to the BBC's conversion to chromatic broadcasting, the…
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The Rainbow's Gravity: Colour, Materiality and British Modernity Dootson Kirsty Sinclair
From Victorian breakthroughs in synthesising pigments to the BBC's conversion to chromatic broadcasting, the story of colour's technological development is inseparable from wider processes of modernisation that transformed Britain. Offering a compelling new account of modern British visual culture that reveals colour to be central to its aesthetic trajectories and political formations, this chromatic lens deepens our understanding of how British art is made and what it means, offering a new way to assess the visual landscape of the period and interpret its colourful objects.Across a kaleidoscopic This revolutionary history brings to light how new colour technologies informed ideas about national identity during a period of profound social change, when the challenges of industrialisation, decolonisation of the Empire and evolving attitudes to race and gender reshaped the nation.