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Introduction: Colour Materiality in the Nineteenth Century / Stefano Evangelista, Charlotte Ribeyrol, Matthew Winterbottom -- 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 -- 2. Chrome Yellow: American Mineral, American Fancy / Kirsten Travers Moffitt -- 3. Wavelengths and Potato Starch: The (Im)material in Colour Photography / Nathalie Boulouch -- 4. Whitewashing the Wards? Colour, Health, and Victorian Hospital Interiors / Kay Simpson -- 5. From Hysteria to Healing: Félix Vallotton's Bon Marché and the Ambiguous Nature of Colour in Fin-de-Siècle Culture / Alessandra Ronetti -- 6. Masculinities, Colour, Dyeing and the Design of Tweeds 1829-1914 / Fiona Anderson -- 7. The Queerly Racialised Colours of Religion and Decadence at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge / Dominic Janes -- 8. 'The Look of Measurement': Colour and Sight in Victor Fulconis's Depictions of the Indo-Caribbean in Martinique, 1883 / Helena Neimann Erikstrup -- 9. Annotating Syme: Nineteenth-Century Marks and Marginalia in Werner's Nomenclature of Colours (1814/1821) / Joyce Dixon -- 10. Between Heritage, Militaria and Concept: The Magenta Case / Marie-Anne Sarda -- 11. The Hayters and the Controversy on Colour Giulia Simonini -- 12. John Ruskin's Painting Materials: A Quest for Durable Colour between Industry and Nature / Tea Ghigo -- 13. 'Rather revolution than evolution': Chinese White and Watercolour Painting Techniques in England 1850-1880 / Fiona Mann -- 14. Colour on Trial: Concerns about the Quality of Artists' Pigments / Kathrin Kinseher -- 15. Epilogue: From Pigments to Pixel / Arnaud Dubois.

"Colour Matters provides a fresh investigation of colour in the long nineteenth century. Across fourteen richly researched essays, the book explores the materiality, politics, and sensory experience of colour-from synthetic dyes and chrome pigments to the role of colour in medicine, gender, empire, and identity. By weaving together art history, literature, anthropology, science, and conservation, the contributors reveal a dynamic world where chromatic experimentation shaped aesthetics, technology, and social life. Colour Matters offers an essential contribution to colour studies and the humanities' material turn, showing how pigment and perception illuminate both past and present. This book will appeal to scholars and students of art history, literature, cultural studies, and the history of science in the long eighteenth-century, as well as curators, conservators, and readers fascinated by the histories of colour and material culture."--Publisher's website.

Funded by the European Union European Research Council. Programme : European Union's Horizon 2020 Grant 818563

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