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== Interpretations ==
== Interpretations ==
* [[Albert Oehlen]] had an exhibition titled "Farbenlehre" ("Color Theory") in 1985. The exhibition catalog contains passages from JW Goethe's "On Color Theory" (1808-1810)<ref>https://saint-martin-bookshop.com/products/albert-oehlen-farbenlehre-ascan-crone-1985</ref><ref>https://www.textlog.de/6867.html</ref>
* [[Albert Oehlen]] had an exhibition titled "Farbenlehre" ("Color Theory") in 1985. The exhibition catalog contains passages from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "On Colour Theory" (1808-1810)<ref>https://saint-martin-bookshop.com/products/albert-oehlen-farbenlehre-ascan-crone-1985</ref><ref>https://www.textlog.de/6867.html</ref>
** "That all colours mixed together make white is an absurdity which, along with other absurdities, we have been accustomed to repeating for a century, in faith and in spite of what we see."
* See also "[[Colour Theory, No. 3]]"
* See also "[[Colour Theory, No. 3]]"



Latest revision as of 12:54, 16 July 2025

Lyrics

Is white a colour? What is colour? Is white a colour? What is colour?

Tint or hue, what's colour to you? Tint or hue, what's colour to you?

Sounds normal because appearance is nothing if not everything Sounds normal because appearance is nothing if not everything

Ist Weiß eine Farbe? Was ist Farbe? [continues in German]

Chronology

Interpretations

  • Albert Oehlen had an exhibition titled "Farbenlehre" ("Color Theory") in 1985. The exhibition catalog contains passages from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "On Colour Theory" (1808-1810)[1][2]
    • "That all colours mixed together make white is an absurdity which, along with other absurdities, we have been accustomed to repeating for a century, in faith and in spite of what we see."
  • See also "Colour Theory, No. 3"

References