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I Send You this Cadmium Red by John Berger
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I Send You this Cadmium Red

by John Berger

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"By air mail / Par avion: I SEND YOU THIS CADMIUM RED... is a book of correspondence between two friends, John Berger and John Christie. It began in February 1997, when in response to an open question from Christie: 'What could our next project be?' Berger replied: 'Just send a colour...' A painted square of Cadmium Red crossed the Channel. For Berger this first colour suggested 'innocence.' '...the red of childhood... the red of young eyelids shut tight.' Later he talked about his favourite red, the red of Caravaggio: '...the red by which you swear to love forever... the red whose father is the knife.' ( )
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1997 erhält John Berger von John Christie ein rot bemaltes Papier. Berger antwortet, er gibt der Farbe rot eine eigene »Lebensgeschichte«: das unberührte Rot der Kindheit, das Schwarz, in das es sich verwandelt im Älterwerden, das Weiß, das es war, als es jung war, bis er zu seinem Lieblingsrot, dem Caravaggio-Rot kommt. Später schreiben sich Berger und Christie über das Matisse-Blau, das Yves Klein-Blau, sie kommen von Klein zu Le Corbusier, von Perlmutt zu Courbet, von Gelb zu Gold, von Kandinsky zu Paul Klee... Die Publikation dieser faszinierenden Korrespondenz ist eine Schatzkammer für alle diejenigen, die sich für Farben, Gestaltung, Malerei, Kunstgeschichte und Design interessieren. Die phantasievoll und sehr künstlerisch gestalteten Briefe werden alle im Faksimile und in Übersetzung wiedergegeben.

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