Dear colleagues,

HARTS and Minds are pleased to announce their upcoming issue on Chromatography or Colour Studies, to be published March 2018. This Special Issue aims to renegotiate the idea that colour is rooted solely in the visual.

We welcome articles, book reviews, exhibition reviews, and creative writing pieces.

For articles please send a 300 word abstract by the 10th of September 2017  to [log in to unmask].

Suggested topics include:

• Colour symbolism
• The materiality of colour
• Colour history
• The significance of colour in different cultures
• The effect of colour science and optics on the humanities
• Synaesthesia, or hearing/tasting/smelling colour
• Black and white or 'the absence of colour'
• Language and naming colour
• Gendering, queer or so called 'perverse' colours
• Colour and the emotions and the senses
• Architectural color and the environment
• Colour theory
• Natural vs. synthetic or unnatural colour
• Colour in advertising and media
• The psychology of colour
  

Please see our website for full details of our CFP: https://www.harts-minds.co.uk/

Kind regards,

Liz Renes (Editor in Chief) and Jade Boyd (Special Editor)

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