Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Remes, Justin

Titel

COLORED BLINDNESS: Derek Jarman’s Blue and the Monochrome Film

Ist Teil von

• Motion(less) Pictures, 2015, p.111-136

Ort / Verlag

United States: Columbia University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In 1955 the French artist Yves Klein worked with a chemist named Edouard Adam to create a new kind of blue pigment, a saturated, otherworldly ultramarine that would suggest infinitude. Once it was perfected, Klein christened the new color IKB (International Klein Blue) and patented it to prevent imitation. The artist presented eleven seemingly identical IKB monochromes at the 1957Proclamation of the Blue Epochexhibition in Milan and sold them for different prices. The fact that the works seemed to be perceptually indistinguishable was irrelevant to Klein, who claimed, “Each blue world of each painting, although the same blue