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On Color Audiobook

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Read By: Robertson Dean Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: May 2018 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781538536131

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

12

Longest Chapter Length:

35:29 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

05:03 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

29:31 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

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 ten 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 book awakens us anew to the role of color in our world.

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“A deliciously readable, gloriously illumined work of meditation and exploration, written in high resolution.”

— Jay Parini, bestselling author of The Last Station

Quotes

  • “Here is a subtle and imaginative insight into the slippery phenomenon we call color.”

    — Colin Thubron, New York Times bestselling author

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About David Scott Kastan

David Scott Kastan is the George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University. He lives in New York City and New Haven, Connecticut.

About Robertson Dean

Robertson Dean has played leading roles on and off Broadway and at dozens of regional theaters throughout the country. He has a BA from Tufts University and an MFA from Yale. His audiobook narration has garnered ten AudioFile Earphones Awards. He now lives in Los Angeles, where he works in film and television in addition to narrating.