David Batchelor is Senior Tutor in Critical Theory at the Royal College of Art, London. He is also the author of Minimalism (1997).
"Full of good writing, good anecdotes, devastating quotes, deft
arguments, and just the sort of mysterious anomalies one would
expect from an artist writing about the enemies of his practice." -
Dave Hickey, Bookforum
"A hugely entertaining guide to our ongoing obsession with white."
- Time Out
"A provocative contribution to the discourse of color theory." -
James Meyer, Artforum
"This beautifully produced book is an intelligent and provocative
essay on why Western culture hates and fears colour. The prose is
cumulative and passionate in its effect and widely referential from
Barthes to Melville, Wim Wenders to Huysmans . . . you cannot fail
to be stimulated by his thoughts." - RA Magazine
"Switching from novels and movies to art and architecture,
Batchelor clearly and cleverly traces the cultural implications of
the 100 year-plus Colour War between Chromophobes like Le
Corbusier, with their hosannas to whiteness, and Chromophiliacs
like Warhol, the great artist of cosmetics. A succinct book of art
theory which goes down smoothly." - i-D Magazine
"Batchelor has found an irresistible selection of anecdotes and
quotes relating to the experience of color ... thoughtful and
entertaining." - Tema Celeste
"a theoretical and cultural banquet . . . The books narrative
quality goes beyond the telling of color theorys history and other
approaches to color, coming to read like a psychological thriller:
how the West crushed color or at least thought it did so." - New
Art Examiner, Chicago
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