CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. 1 Something Winged: Color as Organizational Force 1
4. 2 Weimar, ca. 1800: Cooking Chocolate 21
5. 3 New Lanark, 1816: Working the Silent Monitor 47
6. 4 Lower Bengal, 1859: The Coke of Empire 67
7. 5 Berlin, 1924: Consuming the Color Chart 87
8. 6 The Zone, 1945: Unleashing the Synthetic Rainbow 111
9. 7 Paris, 1967: The Revolution Will Be Colorized 135
10. 8 Houston, 1971: Two Kinds of Colorism 157
11. 9 Cologne, 2007: The Distribution of the Insensible 179
12. 10 Broken Tones: Toward a Chromatics of the Social 201
13. Acknowledgments 217
14. Notes 221
15. Works Cited 255
16. Index 273