Customer Reviews

The Colour of Angels: Cosmology, Gender and the Aesthetic Imagination

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Scholarly, evocative, fascinating read. This is one of my favorite texts addressing art, gender, and our sense of senses.

I have been reading Classen out of academic interest. Mostly because her books deal with areas very few other people seem to touch. I can highly recommend 'Worlds of sense' and `Aroma'. Very, very good books about things you've never thought of.

Color of Angels also is one such book. It deals with 'worldviews' on perceptions of the divine. Especially the first half is very readable, highly enjoyable and refreshing. However, at a certain moment I happened to be sitting in Cambridge, on the shores of the Cam, thinking: Yeah, this is all nice and interesting, but so what? In other words, at a certain moment the book lost its fascination. For me that point was the mediaeval details, however interesting, yet less stimulating.

Please understand me well. This is not a bad book. I think for those interested in the topic it might be an exceptionally well crafted, highly readable, well constructed and substantiated book. For me it was a very enjoyable distraction. Up to a point.