{"product_id":"a-dead-white","title":"A Dead White \/\/ An Argument Against White Paint (Pre-order, Oct 13 2026)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn impassioned, boundary-pushing work of criticism traversing an array of subjects, from fine arts to design to architecture, taking aim at the ubiquity of white paint in our society and what its prevalence reveals about our values\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt’s hard to identify a material that takes up more sensory space and has received less critical examination than white paint. As the default color of our built environment, it asks us to believe that it’s neutral—that it has no signifiers or, perhaps more troublingly, that what it \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003edoes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e signify, whether it be calmness, cleanliness, blankness, or purity, is unassailable and value-free. In this expansive, impassioned examination, cultural critic Wendy S. Walters interrogates all that we have taken for granted about the substance that colors, or fails to color, the structures and objects that surround us—and what the collective impulse toward white paint can tell us about culture, politics, and individual desire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTracing the unquantifiable impact of white paint on our lived environment and in our collective imaginary, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Dead White\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e braids together multiple narrative threads and associations. Exploring the role of white paint in art history, architecture, and consumer culture, it follows its influence into the home, the halls of the workplace, the galleries and studios of the contemporary art world, and larger forums of mass culture and national identity, never losing sight of how this cultural inclination manifests in our choices and habits as individuals. Deeply investigated and anchored by Walters’s immediate sensory experiences and instincts, her intelligence and lucid prose ground this encompassing, utterly fresh work of cultural criticism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWendy S. Walters\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eMultiply\/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Troy, Michigan\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint.\u003c\/i\u003e Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Harper’s\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e BOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. She is a recipient of fellowships from Creative Capital, The Architectural League of New York, NYFA, and Mass MoCA. For The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she cocurated the exhibition Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, which was called “a master class in presenting complicated, troubling art.” She is an associate professor of nonfiction in the Writing Program of the School of the Arts at Columbia University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Scribner\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublish Date: October 13, 2026\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages:  352\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eType: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEAN\/UPC: 9781982178550\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e8.4 in H | 5.5 in W | 0.8 in T | 1 lb Wt\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBISAC Categories: Arts \u0026amp; Hobbies, Literary Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wendy S. Walters","offers":[{"title":"(Pre-order, Oct 13 2026) Hardcover","offer_id":49135461466347,"sku":"9781982178550","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0253\/4014\/9820\/files\/9781982178550.jpg?v=1785605396","url":"https:\/\/rep.club\/products\/a-dead-white","provider":"Reparations Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}