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‘On Color’ and ‘The Music of Color’ Book Reviews

  • 05/15/201902/24/2023
  • by Hannah Huff

A DOUBLE-DECKER BOOK REVIEW OF ON COLOR BY DAVID SCOTT KASTAN AND STEPHEN FARTHING (2018), AND THE MUSIC OF COLOR BY SHIMURA FUKUMI (2019) – TWO NONFICTION TEXTS EXPLORING COLOR


From the new books at the college library where I work, I plucked The Music of Color by Shimura Fukumi, enchanted by the cover photo of blue, white, and green yarn, the soft and creamy dust-jacket, the poetic title, and the dazzling photographs nestled amid lyrical text within. Then I put it in my desk drawer where it sat like a glowing orb while I did actual work.

Over the next few days, more new books were sent out to the shelves and, being a greedy reader who wants all the freshest volumes, I also harvested On Color by David Scott Kastan with Stephen Farthing, wooed by its squat shape, its indigo cover depicting a chalk stick rainbow, its vivid pictures, and its promise to investigate the intriguing subject of color.

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