{"id":47399,"date":"2021-04-27T17:45:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T14:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=47399"},"modified":"2021-04-27T17:45:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T14:45:31","slug":"i-have-frequently-reread-those-phantasmagoria-of-exotic-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/04\/27\/i-have-frequently-reread-those-phantasmagoria-of-exotic-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I have frequently reread those phantasmagoria of exotic colour&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found a new source for the colour in &#8220;The Colour out of Space&#8221;, on which more in my forthcoming review of <em>Lovecraft Annual<\/em> 2020. In the meanwhile, those fascinated with the histories of colour may be interested in the latest shelf-trembler from Bloomsbury. The mammoth <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/a-cultural-history-of-color-9781474273732\/\">A Cultural History of Color<\/a><\/em> runs to six handsome volumes, and costs \u00a3395. Which I think is roughly about $500.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/col.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/col.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"309\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-47400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/colour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/colour.jpg?w=417\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"457\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-47401\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A pity, perhaps, that there wasn&#8217;t also a pre-history volume surveying and summarising what we now know about colour in the deep past. Although, admittedly, the emphasis might have been largely on the various shades of ochre and umber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found a new source for the colour in &#8220;The Colour out of Space&#8221;, on which more in my forthcoming &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/04\/27\/i-have-frequently-reread-those-phantasmagoria-of-exotic-colour\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}