Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue now tells the fascinating social history of the color black in Europe.
In the beginning was black, Michel Pastoureau tells us. The archetypal color of darkness and death, black was associated in the early Christian period with hell and the devil but...
Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas...
The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. This title considers how this once venerated creature was deposed by the advent of Christianity and continued to sink lower in the symbolic bestiary before rising again in Pyrrhic triumph as a popular toy.
The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. This title considers how this once venerated creature...
In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to today. Examining the evolving place of green in art, clothes, literature, religion, science, and everyday life, Michel Pastoureau traces how culture has profoundly changed the perception and meaning of the color over millennia--and how we misread cultural, social, and art history when we assume that colors have always signified what they do today.
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In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of...
A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color red throughout the ages
The color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up through the Middle Ages, red held a place of privilege in the Western world. For many cultures, red was not just one color of many but rather the only color worthy enough to be used for social purposes. In some languages, the word for red was the same as the word for color. The first color developed for painting and dying, red became associated in antiquity with war, wealth,...
A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color red throughout the ages
A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the agesBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now cite it as their favorite color. In this fascinating history, the renowned medievalist Michel Pastou
A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the agesBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western ...
Pro historika je imaginace vždy částí reality, podotýká Michel Pastoureau. Soudní procesy proti zvířatům, mytologie lesa a stromů, bestiáře pohádek, příchod šachů do západní Evropy, prehistorie a archeologie barev, počátky erbů a vlajek, Jidášova ikonografie, legenda o králi Artušovi a román Ivanhoeovi: tvoří jen některá z témat, jimiž se autor v této knize zabývá. Bádání o symbolech, obrazech a barvách se už věnuje po tři desetiletí a zkoumá při tom prameny nejrůznější povahy, etymologii, literární i naučné texty, erby, vlastní jména...
Pro historika je imaginace vždy částí reality, podotýká Michel Pastoureau. Soudní procesy proti zvířatům, mytologie lesa a stromů, bestiá...
A renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blue, black, green, and red now traces the visual, social, and cultural history of yellow. Focusing on European societies, with comparisons from East Asia, India, Africa, and South America, he tells the intriguing story of the color's evolving place in art, religion, fashion, literature, and science.
A renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blue, black, green, and red now traces the visual, social, and cu...
