reading assignment

"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. " -Editor's note

reading assignment due Monday March 28th. To be read to class and handed in.
selection from David Batchelor's Chromophobia.
look for this in your email in coming days (I am scanning and making PDF).
write 2 page essay on reading, summarizing it and relating it to your own and/or others' cultural color observations. Research ideas, and find historical information to back up ideas, theories, and thoughts.