Synthetic Worlds.(Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry)(Book review)

Art Monthly | June 1, 2006| | Copyright

Esther Leslie, Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry, Reaktion, London, 2005, 280pp, colour and b/w illus, 25.00 [pounds sterling], 1 86189 248 9.

Colour is an important question for art, with not so many well-constructed answers. Good writing on colour experience is all too often fragmentary, dispersed to monographic writing or unexpected places: poems by Denise Riley, or Howard Caygill's book on Walter Benjamin. There remains more of value in Goethe's richly empirical writing on colour, the science behind which is often wrong, or an eccentric ...

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