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Article: The image of thought: Achromatics in O'Keeffe and Beckett. (American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and Irish writer Samuel Beckett)
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- Mosaic (Winnipeg)
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- December 1, 1996
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Chromatics is the study of color, or in modern times what is called the color spectrum. Achromatics is the study of black and white as isolated or independent colors and of their own mixture which produces shades of black and white: grey. Historically, chromatics has received the major attention, and has been of concern to both scientific researchers and those in the arts. Achromatics, in contrast, was virtually ignored until the beginning of the 20th century, and most of this theorizing has focused on pictorial art and on what are thought to be the symbolic or universal properties of black, white and grey. Indeed, much of the critical discussion concerning achromatics has ...