The Sorcery Of Color
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The Sorcery of Color
Author: Elisa Larkin Nascimento
language: en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date: 2009-08-15
Originally published in 2003 in Portuguese, The Sorcery of Color argues that there are longstanding and deeply-rooted relationships between racial and gender inequalities in Brazil. In this pioneering book, Elisa Larkin Nascimento examines the social and cultural movements that have attempted, since the early twentieth century, to challenge and eradicate these conjoined inequalities. The book's title describes the social sleight-of-hand that disguises the realities of Brazilian racial inequity. According to Nascimento, anyone who speaks of racism—or merely refers to another person as black—traditionally is seen as racist. The only acceptably non-racist attitude is silence. At the same time, Afro-Brazilian culture and history have been so overshadowed by the idea of a general "Brazilian identity" that to call attention to them is also to risk being labeled racist. Incorporating leading international scholarship on Pan Africanism and Afrocentric philosophy with the writing of Brazilian scholars, Nascimento presents a compelling feminist argument against the prevailing policy that denies the importance of race in favor of a purposefully vague concept of ethnicity confused with color.
The Color of Magic . . . And the Magic of Color
A beautiful starchild is born remembering the magic of the universe in her heart and treasuring the colors of love and light that shower her in creative possibilities and divine goodness in all ways. She grows strong, healthy, and happy in this blanket of loving guidance and joy. Until one day, she hears others' disbelief that true magic exists. With a believing and hopeful heart, she shares her star sight and her colors of magic with everyone she sees, trusting the vibrant colors and happy thoughts to express what she deeply knows inside. But when no one reflects back to her the world she knows within, her light grows dim. She then experiences life without such heart visions of hope and luminous possibilities. It takes the re-awakening of her inner ears and heart wisdom that ultimately helps her to find her inner starshine once more. In this full circle journey, this special starchild reflects a magical essence that indwells us all - that invites us to color our own heart visions again!
J.W. Waterhouse and the Magic of Color
English painter John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) communicates his aesthetic vision through his use of color. Throughout his career, he experimented with color as an element with seemingly spatial qualities. His works have an unusual formalism--figures and settings often appear not merely realistic but somewhat hyperreal. Yet paradoxically Waterhouse's works border on the abstract, prioritizing chromatic features over content. They invite us to focus on colors--and through them line, shape, texture and rhythm--in much the same way as works by Kandinsky, Klee, Matisse or Pollock.