Hands Down
Denise Riley: Naming the Canvas, 17 September 1998
Invisible Colours: A Visual History of Titles
by John Welchman.
Yale, 416 pp., £35, October 1997,0 300 06530 2 Show More
by John Welchman.
Yale, 416 pp., £35, October 1997,
“... in a solid black square and flourished it around the classroom as Negroes in a Cellar at Midnight. John Welch-man is fatally drawn to Allais’s parodies. He knows that he shouldn’t claim that his exhibited coloured rectangles were miraculous precursors of high abstraction, but he can’t entirely resist it. Of Allais’s 1897 sequence of single-colour ... ”
