Publications
Colour Turn is an open-access journal. All published articles are freely available online on the journal's OJS website. The journal publishes research across eight key domains of colour studies.
Vol. 2, No. 2, July 2026
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ReviewsZeitlin-Wu, Lida and Kane, Carolyn. 2025. Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media. MIT Press Reviewed by Anna Wells Piotti Castonguay (opens in a new tab)
Anna Wells Piotti Castonguay
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Colour in Art and MediaColour and Animation (opens in a new tab)
Susanne Marschall
Vol. 2, No. 1, February 2026
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ReviewsWieland, Mascha. 2022. Entangled with Colour: New Materialist Explorations in English Colour Writing. Tübingen University Press (opens in a new tab)
Elena Mucciarelli
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Colour and TechnologyPersonal Colour between Perceptual Space and Social Practice (opens in a new tab)
Akihiro Kawase, Junji Adachi & Kako Nagashima
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Colour in Art and MediaBeyond the Spectrum: Unveiling the Uncharted Influence of Ultraviolet Colour Narratives in Contemporary Cinema (opens in a new tab)
Jarvis Tyrell Curry
Vol. 1, No. 1, June 2025
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ReviewsLoske, Alexandra, and Sarah Lowengard. The Book of Colour Concepts. Köln: TASCHEN, 2024 (opens in a new tab)
Susanne Marschall
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Colour in Art and MediaColour Reflections: A study of colour in cinema using the example of Bong Joon-ho's Parasite (opens in a new tab)
Susanne Marschall
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Colour in Culture and SocietyKind(s) of Blue: The poetics and politics of blueness in Dionne Brand's The Blue Clerk and Lorna Simpson's Ghost Note and Time (opens in a new tab)
Elpida Ziavra
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Colour in Culture and SocietyWhen my student asked "Was ist Black auf Deutsch": Deconstructing racial terminology in language courses (opens in a new tab)
Anna Wells Piotti Castonguay
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Colour and CommunicationWorlding in Victorian children's literature: Reading colours in selected texts (opens in a new tab)
Athira Mohan
No. 3 (2022): Colour Turn 2022
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Colour in Interdisciplinary ContextActive Colour: An autoethnographic study of how I approach(ed) colour, language, and their intersection (opens in a new tab)
Anna Piotti
No. 2 (2020): Colour Turn 2020
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Colour in Art and MediaAccidental Colour, Performative Colour: Video Art's New Disruptors (opens in a new tab)
Carolyn L. Kane
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Colour in Interdisciplinary ContextA Methodology for the Prediction of Complementary Colours in Chromatic Afterimages (opens in a new tab)
José María González Cuasante, Fernando Alonso Muñoz & María Cuevas Riaño
No. 1 (2018): Colour Turn 2018
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Colour in Interdisciplinary ContextBasics of Colour Research (opens in a new tab)
Susanne Marschall & Annette Werner
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Colour in Art and MediaTorn between Chromophobia and Colour Mania: Developments of Early Technicolor (opens in a new tab)
Barbara Flueckiger
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Colour in Interdisciplinary ContextThe Function of Colour: An Introduction to Colour Theory and a Definition of Terms (opens in a new tab)
Axel Buether
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Colour and TechnologyNew Colours for Autonomous Driving: An Evaluation of Chromaticities for the External Lighting Equipment of Autonomous Vehicles (opens in a new tab)
Annette Werner
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Colour in Culture and SocietyRadiant Things for Gods and Men: Lightness and Darkness in Mesopotamian Language and Thought (opens in a new tab)
Shiyanthi Thavapalan
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ReviewsThinking Colours (opens in a new tab)
David Alan Warburton