ABSTRACT
The Colour of Angels uncovers the gender politics behind our attitude to the senses. Using a wide variety of examples, ranging from the sensuous religious visions of the middle ages through to nineteenth-century art movements, this book reveals a previously unexplored area of womens history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
Introduction
part I|50 pages
Cosmology
chapter 1|24 pages
On the color of angels
13The sensory cosmologies of St. Hildegard, Boehme, and Fourier
part II|46 pages
Gender
part III|54 pages
Aesthetics
chapter 5|30 pages
Symbolist harmonies, Futurist colors, Surrealist recipes
109Crossing sensory borders in the arts
