Chromophobia

The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse-a fear of corruption or contamination through color-lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge color, either by making it the property of some foreign body-the oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, or the pathological-or by relegating it to the realm of the superficial, the supplementary, the inessential, or the cosmetic. Chromophobia h...