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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> It is this ‘interactive power of distinct colours when seen together that is also apparent in Antonio Ole’s Township Wall (2004) the work that we chose as the cover image for this book. For us it demonstrates how out of clearly defined yet proximate colours materials and conceptual differences (here for example doors windows wall panels tools signs and other fragments) a new composite structure can evolve. Township Wall also resonates with other tropes that reveal the traffic between art and anthropology such as appropriation (of others through text and visual media) as well as materiality and texture (the sensory capacities of material expression). Importantly Antonio Ole’s work is a clear statement about overcoming chromophobia which coupled with iconophobia’ is not only a charge levelled against anthropology for its history of problems dealing with images but also against the contemporary artworld. and its sometimes ambivalent relation to colour As mach as anthropology and knowl edge production in the social sciences more generally have felt threatened by images (as well as colour and other forms of sensory experience) so too the contemporary artworld has arguably anaesthetized some of the affects of colour perceptions within the restricted spaces of artificially white cubes (read galleries): David Batchelor’s critique of a certain Western (sic!) fear of colour suggests that it is in part based on precisely the kinds of affects’ colour can have (LL)