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(0)Michel Pastoureau
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
240 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Illuminated with a wide variety of images, this book traces the long history of yellow around the world. In antiquity, yellow was considered a sacred color, a symbol of light, warmth, wealth, and prosperity. But in medieval Europe, it became highly ambivalent: greenish yellow came to signify demonic sulfur and bile, the color of forgers, felon knights, traitors, Judas, and Lucifer-while warm yellow recalled honey and gold, serving as a sign of joy,...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
239 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
238 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of color, but it is without doubt an important color in its own right, just like red, blue, green, or yellow--and, like them, white has its own intriguing history. In this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau, a celebrated authority on the history of colors, presents a fascinating visual, social, and cultural history of the color white in European societies, from antiquity to today....
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
216 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Blue 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 Pastoureau traces the changing meanings of blue from its rare appearance in prehistoric art to its international ubiquity today. Any history of color is, above all, a social history. Pastoureau investigates...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
213 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
English language ed.
Physical Desc
210 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
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 book, the author of Blue now tells the fascinating social history of the color black in Europe. In the beginning was black, he tells us. The archetypal color of darkness and death, black was associated...
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