{"product_id":"what-color-is-the-sacred-hardcover","title":"What Color Is the Sacred? - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Taussig\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the past thirty years, visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig has crafted a highly distinctive body of work. Playful, enthralling, and whip-smart, his writing makes ingenious connections between ideas, thinkers, and things. An extended meditation on the mysteries of color and the fascination they provoke, \u003ci\u003eWhat Color Is the Sacred?\u003c\/i\u003e is the next step on Taussig's remarkable intellectual path. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Following his interest in magic and surrealism, his earlier work on mimesis, and his recent discussion of heat, gold, and cocaine in \u003ci\u003eMy Cocaine Museum\u003c\/i\u003e, this book uses color to explore further dimensions of what Taussig calls \"the bodily unconscious\" in an age of global warming. Drawing on classic ethnography as well as the work of Benjamin, Burroughs, and Proust, he takes up the notion that color invites the viewer into images and into the world. Yet, as Taussig makes clear, color has a history-a manifestly colonial history rooted in the West's discomfort with color, especially bright color, and its associations with the so-called primitive. He begins by noting Goethe's belief that Europeans are physically averse to vivid color while the uncivilized revel in it, which prompts Taussig to reconsider colonialism as a tension between chromophobes and chromophiliacs. And he ends with the strange story of coal, which, he argues, displaced colonial color by giving birth to synthetic colors, organic chemistry, and IG Farben, the giant chemical corporation behind the Third Reich. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nietzsche once wrote, \"So far, all that has given colour to existence still lacks a history.\" With \u003ci\u003eWhat Color Is the Sacred?\u003c\/i\u003e Taussig has taken up that challenge with all the radiant intelligence and inspiration we've come to expect from him.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Taussig\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of anthropology at Columbia University and the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin's Grave\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy Cocaine Museum\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754049470752,"sku":"9780226790053","price":178.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d474a463beeef4910dda6f6334f6a0ce_f7c8038e-1700-4df0-89ba-b2c813d6b073.webp?v=1780032281","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/what-color-is-the-sacred-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}