List members may be interested to know that in the current issue of the Open
Access Journal of Art Historiography a number of reviews address the topic
of colour and polychromy:
Amanda Claridge: ‘Looking for Colour on Greek and Roman Sculpture’. Vinzenz
Brinkmann, Oliver Primavesi, Max Hollein, (eds), Circumlitio. The
Polychromy of Antique and Medieval Sculpture. Liebighaus
Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 2010 5-AC/1
Jim Harris: ‘Looking at Colour on post-Antique Sculpture’. Vinzenz
Brinkmann, Oliver Primavesi, Max Hollein, (eds), Circumlitio. The
Polychromy of Antique and Medieval Sculpture. Liebighaus
Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 2010 5-AH/1
John Mack: ‘Surfaces on African sculpture’. Leonard Kahan, Donna Page, and
Pascal James Imperato (eds) in collaboration with Charles Bordogna and
Bolaji Campbell with an introduction by Patrick McNaughton, Surfaces: Color,
Substances, and Ritual Applications on African Sculpture, Indiana University
Press, 2009 5-JM/2
Edmund Thomas: ‘Primary Colours’. Mark Bradley, Colour and Meaning in
Ancient Rome, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
5-ET/1
I am very interested in publishing further papers, documents and reviews in
this area. Some of you may be interested in the rest of the journal, which
is at http://arthistoriography.wordpress.com/.
Prof. Richard Woodfield
Editor of the Journal of Art Historiography
http://arthistoriography.wordpress.com/
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