Like the spectrum’s glimmer on the surface of a soap bubble, color is elusive. “The first thing to realize about the study of color in our time,” says Charles A. Riley, II, “is its uncanny ability to evade all attempts to codify it systematically.” Mr. Riley charts some of those attempts in his new book, Color Codes: Modern Theories of Color in Philosophy, Painting and Architecture, Literature, Music, and Psychology (University Press of New England; 351 pages; $39.95).
He explores color in realms from the philosophy of Wittgenstein, to the novels of Joyce, to case histories compiled by the neurologist Oliver Sacks.
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