Rematerializing colour: from concept to substance

• Other Authors: Diana Young
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Sean Kingston Publishing 2018
• Subjects: Colour; Colour categorisation; Australian Aboriginal; Ochre; Western Desert Aboriginal art; First Nations peoples Canada; Australian Aboriginal art; Colour cognition; Colour terms- Russian; Colour terms- Warlpiri; Colour terms- Kwakuitl; Colour photograph; Kuninjku artists; Yolgnu; Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara; Papunya Tula artists; Colour perception; British Columbia; Canada; Tula; First Nations
• Online Access: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:729092

Colour is largely assumed to be already in the world, a natural universal that everyone, everywhere understands. Yet cognitive scientists routinely tell us that colour is an illusion, and a private one for each of us; neither social nor material, it is held to be a product of individual brains and e...