Chromophilia

Color, long denigrated by philosophers and painters as inferior to form, was “emancipated” by a number of modernist artists, perhaps most notably Wassily Kandinsky and his collaborators in Der Blaue Reiter. Not only was it elevated above form, but it was also freed from the imperative to imitate the perceived colors of the real world and its identification with mere surface appearance. Among Kandinsky’s greatest enthusiasts was Walter Benjamin, whose fragmentary writings on color celebrated its spiritual powers and resistance to the conceptual abstractions of language. Although he ultimately abandoned his quest for a new theory of color that would somehow serve the more radical emancipation of humankind he sought, Benjamin never lost his fascination for the experience of color he attributed to children, an experience that prefigured the utopian redemption of the senses he hoped might one day be realized

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• The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940

  Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem et al.•The Correspondence of Walter…•1994

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• The Crisis of German Ideology

  Open Access•Eric Waldman, George L Mosse•Modern Language Journal•1965

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• The Crisis of German Ideology

  Klemens Von Klemperer, George L Mosse•The American Historical Review•1966

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• Marxism and Modernism

  Jerrold Seigel, Eugene Lunn•The American Historical Review•1983

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• Benjamin's "Ghosts"

  Rolf J Goebel, Gerhard Richter•The German Quarterly•2003

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• The Idea of Decadence in French Literature, 1830-1900

  A E Carter•Idea of Decadence in French…•1978

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• Early Writings, 1910–1917

  Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland•Work of Art in the Age of Its…•2011

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• Force Fields

  Open Access•Van Kelly, Martin Jay•South Central Review•1995

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• Redemption and Utopia

  R Robertson•German History•1994

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• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

  J E Creighton, John Locke et al.•The Philosophical Review•1894

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• Adorno's Mahler and the Timbral Outsider

  Open Access•John J Sheinbaum•Journal of the Royal Musical…•2006

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