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.
Issue 6 — 2026
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Colour in Art and MediaThe complexity of the creative process in urban colour design (opens in a new tab)
Anamaria Rezende
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Colour in Interdisciplinary ContextDust atmospheres: Perceptions shaping spatiality (opens in a new tab)
Andreas Rauh
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Colour and the MindOn the need for spatial component in describing colour vision deficiency (opens in a new tab)
Beatrice Sarti, Daniele Aurelio, Carlo Albero Iocco, Lucia Becatti, Andrea Mazzoni & Alessandro Rizzi
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Colour and the MindMaterial and Immaterial Colours in Interaction: Josef Albers' Murals 'Homages to the Square' at the Rochester Institute of Technology (opens in a new tab)
Juan Serra & Michael Murdoch
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Colour in Culture and SocietyColour and spatialities: A literature review (opens in a new tab)
Imène Slama
Issue 5 — 2026
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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
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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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ReviewsWieland, Mascha. 2022. Entangled with Colour: New Materialist Explorations in English Colour Writing. Tübingen University Press (opens in a new tab)
Elena Mucciarelli
Issue 4 — 2024
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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
Issue 3 — 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
Issue 2 — 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
Issue 1 — 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