The black page in Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman, which first appeared in 1759.
Featured on PDR in the essay Black on Black
Should we consider black a colour, the absence of colour, or a suspension of vision produced by a deprivation of light? Beginning with Robert Fludd's attempt to picture nothingness, Eugene Thacker reflects* on some of the ways in which blackness has been used and thought about through the history of art and philosophical thought.
Also appearing in the essay…
Black page in Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman
Date
1759
From
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman
Image Size
1000 x 871