Mostafavi, Mohsen, author, interviewer.

The color black : antinomies of a color in architecture and art / Mohsen Mostafavi and Max Raphael ; text editor, Pamela Johnston.

First edition.

[London] : MACK, 2024.

277 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm

This publication traces a theoretical and visual narrative of the relationship of art and architecture with the colour black through two essays by architect and critic Mohsen Mostafavi and the Marxist German art historian Max Raphael (1889-1952). Mostafavi considers architecture's connection with the colour by considering parallel developments in global art practices - with references ranging from Japanese screens to Rothko, Georgia O'Keefe to Kara Walker, Peter Celsing to Derek Jarman. He draws on Raphael's text 'The Color Black: On the Material Constitution of Form,' based on a selection of old master paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Also included are conversations with Swiss architect Peter Märkli, whose use of black is informed by Raphael's writings, and the artist Theaster Gates, whose work explores the aesthetic and political possibilities of the colour.

191574363X (hardback)
9781915743633 (hardback)

Märkli, Peter, 1953- Interviews.
Gates, Theaster, 1973- Interviews.
Black in art.
Color in architecture.
Noir dans l'art.
Couleur en architecture.

Raphael, Max, 1889-1952. Farbe Schwarz.
Raphael, Max, 1889-1952, author.
Märkli, Peter, 1953- interviewee, architect.
Gates, Theaster, 1973- interviewee, artist.
Johnston, Pamela, translator, editor.

Location: Library main 320640
Call No.: 320640
Copy: 1
Status: Available