The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America - Rilegato

Rossi, Michael

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ISBN 10: 022665172X ISBN 13: 9780226651729

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2019

Riassunto

<div><i>The Republic of Color</i> delves deep into the history of color science in the United States to unearth its origins and examine the scope of its influence on the industrial transformation of turn-of-the-century America.<br> &#160;<br> For a nation in the grip of profound economic, cultural, and demographic crises, the standardization of color became a means of social reform&#8212;a way of sculpting the American population into one more amenable to the needs of the emerging industrial order. Delineating color was also a way to characterize the vagaries of human nature, and to create ideal structures through which those humans would act in a newly modern American republic. Michael Rossi&#8217;s compelling history goes far beyond the culture of the visual to show readers how the control and regulation of color shaped the social contours of modern America&#8212;and redefined the way we see the world.</div>

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Informazioni sull'autore

<div><b>Michael Rossi</b> is assistant professor of the history of science and medicine at the University of Chicago.</div>

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 022665172X
• ISBN 13: 9780226651729
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 313
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile