Introduction

Abstract

Edited by Helen Hughes and Amy May Stuart, with introduction by Tessa Laird. Designed by Zenobia Ahmed. Colour Handling comprises a series of essays on colour written from a painter’s perspective. Each essay responds to an occurrence of colour in an artist’s work: Jutta Koether’s red paintings; Rosie Isaac’s green mirror; Tony Conrad’s Yellow Movies; Derek Jarman’s Blue; and Etel Adnan’s paintings of Mount Tamalpais. The analysis of these works leans on Georges Didi-Huberman’s notion of the patch, a moment in painting when the coloured matter of paint slips away from the logic of pictorial description and performs in some other, strange way. In grappling with this strangeness, the essays in ..