Thought Experiments in Color

Abstract

Chapter 16 moves between thought experiments and puzzles regarding epigraphs in a print culture of black and white. It explores the interaction of the philosophical critique of monochromatic formalism with the monochrome technique broadly applied to the one-colored, non-colored, and all-colored canvases and pages of painting, literature, and history. It offers more twists and turns of perspective drawn from the Red Sea anecdote to connect the red of a sea, square, and thread to the red corner of a room redesigned for the living.