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A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint
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In A Dead White, white paint becomes the focal point of an ever-changing world. Wendy S. Walters traces the influence that the material has had on everything from art to architecture and everywhere in between.
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction
An impassioned, boundary-pushing work of criticism traversing an array of subjects, from fine arts to design to architecture, taking aim at the ubiquity of white paint in our society and what its prevalence reveals about our values.
It’s hard to identify a material that takes up more sensory space and has received less critical examination than white paint. As the default color of our built environment, it asks us to believe that it’s ne...
An impassioned, boundary-pushing work of criticism traversing an array of subjects, from fine arts to design to architecture, taking aim at the ubiquity of white paint in our society and what its prevalence reveals about our values.
It’s hard to identify a material that takes up more sensory space and has received less critical examination than white paint. As the default color of our built environment, it asks us to believe that it’s ne...
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