What Color Is the Sacred?

List of Illustrations

Part One          Into the Image

1. The Face of World History

2. Licensed Transgression

3. Where Stones Walk like Men

4. Color as Crime

5. Color Walks

6. The Diver

7. Could a Cat Be a Whale? 000

8. In the Time of Lapis Lazuli

9. Polymorphous Magical Substance

10. Plasma

11. A Beautiful Blue Substance Flows into Me

12. The Red Butterfly

Part Two          Color in the Colony

13. Administration by Bluff

14. Walking through Fire

15. Sailing through Color

16. Body Paint

17. The Instrument of Ethnographic Observation

18. Color and Slavery

19. Redeeming Indigo

20. Opiation of the Visual Field

21. Sex Appeal of the Inorganic

Part Three        Color in Proust

22. Crossover Men

23. Techniques of the Body: What We Falsely Call Life

24. An Hour is Not Merely an Hour

25. Cardiac Fatigue

26. What Is the Color of the Profane? 000

Part Four          Color in Coal

27. Creature of the Lightless Depth

28. As Colors Pour from Tar

29. Colored by Weather

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography