A provocative meditation on color and the meanings we attach to it. 

Conceived as a companion to the celebrated Chromophobia, this new book from David Batchelor turns from color as an abstract idea to the histories, associations, and contradictions of individual colors. Across chapters devoted to reds, yellows, blues, greens, blacks, whites, and greys, Batchelor draws on an extraordinary range of artists, writers, philosophers, architects, and musicians to show how color has been understood, celebrated, feared, and contested. An artist whose own work is rooted in color, Batchelor argues with clarity and insight that no color possesses a fixed meaning and that every claim about color can be challenged by another. In doing so, he invites readers to reconsider their own perceptions and the limits of language itself.