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TOC Outline

1. Cover
2. Title page
3. Copyright
4. Acknowledgements
5. Contents
6. List of Illustrations and Tables
7. Note on Contributors
8. Introduction: Colour Materiality in the Nineteenth Century
9. PART I
10. 1. ‘Nature Is so Much Better than Dyeing […] You Cannot Get the Same Colour’: Colourful Feathers, Nature and Artifice in the Age of Empires
    1. Ariane Fennetaux
11. 2. Chrome Yellow: American Mineral, American Fancy1
    1. Kirsten Travers Moffitt
12. 3. Wavelengths and Potato Starch: The (Im)material in Colour Photography
    1. Nathalie Boulouch
13. PART II
14. 4. Whitewashing the Wards? Colour, Health, and Victorian Hospital Interiors
    1. Kay Simpson
15. 5. From Hysteria to Healing: Félix Vallotton’s Bon Marché and the Ambiguous Nature of Colour in Fin-de-Siècle Culture1
    1. Alessandra Ronetti
16. PART III
17. 6. Masculinities, Colour, Dyeing and the Design of Tweeds 1829–1914
    1. Fiona Anderson
18. 7. The Queerly Racialised Colours of Religion and Decadence at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
    1. Dominic Janes
19. 8. ‘The Look of Measurement’: Colour and Sight in Victor Fulconis’s Depictions of the Indo-Caribbean in Martinique, 1883
    1. Helena Neimann Erikstrup
20. PART IV
21. 9. Annotating Syme: Nineteenth-Century Marks and Marginalia in Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1814/1821)1
    1. Joyce Dixon
22. 10. Between Heritage, Militaria and Concept: The Magenta Case
    1. Marie-Anne Sarda
23. 11. The Hayters and the Controversy on Colour1
    1. Giulia Simonini
24. PART V
25. 12. John Ruskin’s Painting Materials: A Quest for Durable Colour between Industry and Nature1
    1. Tea Ghigo
26. 13. ‘Rather Revolution than Evolution’: Chinese White and Watercolour Painting Techniques in England 1850–1880
    1. Fiona Mann
27. 14. Colour on Trial: Concerns about the Quality of Artists’ Pigments
    1. Kathrin Kinseher
28. Epilogue: From Pigments to Pixel
    1. Arnaud Dubois
29. Index
30. About the Team
31. This book need not end here…
32. You may also be interested in:
33. Back cover

Headings Outline

• COLOUR MATTERS
• Colour Matters
  • Exploring Chromatic Materialities in the Long Nineteenth Century (1798-1914)
    • Edited byStefano Evangelista, Charlotte Ribeyrol and Matthew Winterbottom
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Illustrations and Tables
• Note on Contributors
• Introduction: Colour Materiality in the Nineteenth Century
  • Stefano Evangelista, Charlotte Ribeyrol and Matthew Winterbottom
  • Bibliography
• Part I
• 1. ‘Nature Is so Much Better than Dyeing […] You Cannot Get the Same Colour’: Colourful Feathers, Nature and Artifice in the Age of Empires
  • Ariane Fennetaux
  • Feathers in Fashion
  • Colour and the Dyeing of Feathers
  • Nature’s Match?
  • Conclusion
  • Archives and Museum Collections
  • Bibliography
• 2. Chrome Yellow: American Mineral, American Fancy1
  • Kirsten Travers Moffitt
  • Conclusion
  • Analytical Techniques
  • Bibliography
• 3. Wavelengths and Potato Starch: The (Im)material in Colour Photography
  • Nathalie Boulouch
  • Wavelengths and Potato Starch
  • Shining a Light
  • Artistic Issues
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
• Part II
• 4. Whitewashing the Wards? Colour, Health, and Victorian Hospital Interiors
  • Kay Simpson
  • White Walls and Bad Air
  • Different Kinds of ‘Gloom’
  • The Home Hospital: Convalescence and ‘Cheerful’ Colour
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
• 5. From Hysteria to Healing: Félix Vallotton’s Bon Marché and the Ambiguous Nature of Colour in Fin-de-Siècle Culture1
  • Alessandra Ronetti
  • A Revolution in Colour
  • Bright Colours and Hysteria
  • Dazzling Displays and Consumer Culture: Vallotton’s Bon Marché (1898).
  • Chromocure
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
• Part III
• 6. Masculinities, Colour, Dyeing and the Design of Tweeds 1829–1914
  • Fiona Anderson
  • Introduction
  • Colour, Design, Fashionable Novelty and Gender in the Scottish Mill-based Tweed Industry 1829–1914
  • Colour, Gender and Dyeing in the Scottish Mill-based Tweed Industry 1856–1914
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
• 7. The Queerly Racialised Colours of Religion and Decadence at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
  • Dominic Janes
  • Men, Colour, and Men of Colour
  • Queerly Colourful Faiths, 1874 to 1895
  • Queer Fears and Opportunities after 1895
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
• 8. ‘The Look of Measurement’: Colour and Sight in Victor Fulconis’s Depictions of the Indo-Caribbean in Martinique, 1883
  • Helena Neimann Erikstrup
  • Colour Sample 1
  • Colour Sample 2
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  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
• Part IV
• 9. Annotating Syme: Nineteenth-Century Marks and Marginalia in Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1814/1821)1
  • Joyce Dixon
  • Introduction
  • Werner’s Nomenclature in Edinburgh
  • Evolutionary Hues
  • Harmonious Colours
  • The Chromotaxonomic Project Continued
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
• 10. Between Heritage, Militaria and Concept: The Magenta Case
  • Marie-Anne Sarda
  • William Perkin and ‘Tyrian Purple’
  • Purple and Violet: European Fashion During the 1840s
  • Purple and Violet: New Patents During the 1840s
  • Synthetic Purples: A European Network (1856–1867).
  • Chromatic Vocabulary
  • ‘Magenta’
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
• 11. The Hayters and the Controversy on Colour1
  • Giulia Simonini
  • Introduction
  • The Painting
  • The Colour Mixing Diagram
  • Originality of the Diagram
  • The Controversy on Colour
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
• Part V
• 12. John Ruskin’s Painting Materials: A Quest for Durable Colour between Industry and Nature1
  • Tea Ghigo
  • Introduction
  • Ruskin’s Ideas on Colour Preservation and His Painting Materials
  • Ruskin’s Printed Works
  • The Watercolours at Oxford
  • Ruskin’s Watercolour Box
  • A Controversial Mind?
  • ‘Using What is Inevitable to the Best Purpose’42
  • George Field’s Chromatography and the Science of Permanence
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
• 13. ‘Rather Revolution than Evolution’: Chinese White and Watercolour Painting Techniques in England 1850–1880
  • Fiona Mann
  • The Problem of White in Watercolour before 1850
  • The Arrival of Chinese White
  • Bachhoffner’s Attack on Chinese White
  • Watercolour Manuals: ‘Legitimacy’ of Use
  • The Artist and Chinese White
  • New Exhibiting Spaces for Watercolours
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
• 14. Colour on Trial: Concerns about the Quality of Artists’ Pigments
  • Kathrin Kinseher
  • The Nineteenth-Century Colour Turn
  • The Dispute over ‘Mummy’
  • Fighting the Modern Evils of Pigments
  • Regulatory Endeavours
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
• Epilogue: From Pigments to Pixel
  • Arnaud Dubois
  • Colour Narrative
  • Colour Digitisation
  • Colour Design
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
• Index
• About the Team
• This book need not end here…
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