Woman Strolling, Georges Seurat, 1884. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Book Club: The Story of Black
GETTY CENTER
Boardroom
The Getty Art Book Club explores selected readings in a discussion group led by educators and other experts, followed by a related gallery tour.
Join us for an exploration of the color black and its varied symbolism in the global history of art and culture as we discuss The Story of Black (2013) by John Harvey. Asking how a single color can at once embody death, evil, and glamour, Harvey's book unearths the secret behind black's continuing power to compel and divide us. Literary Review described it as "A richly informative treat...written with unostentatious elegance....a book to instruct and delight."
Joining the book club conversation will be Harvey, professor at Emmanuel College in Cambridge, who has published widely on literature and visual culture, and Katrin Trautwein, chemist, color consultant, founder of the Swiss pigment manufacturer kt.Color, and author of The Color Black.
