Black : the history of a color /

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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 fa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pastoureau, Michel, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
Edición:English language ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Black.
Color > Psychological aspects > History.
Color > Social aspects > History.
Symbolism of colors > History.
Black in art.
African Americans.
Noir.
Couleur > Aspect psychologique > Histoire.
Couleur > Aspect social > Histoire.
Symbolisme des couleurs > Histoire.
Noir dans l'art.
Noirs américains.
African American.
black (color)
ART / History / General
Black
Black in art
Color > Psychological aspects
Color > Social aspects
Symbolism of colors
Schwarz
Kunst
Farbensymbolik
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • In the beginning was black : from the beginning to the year 1000
  • Mythologies of darkness
  • From darkness to colors
  • From palette to lexicon
  • Death and its color
  • The black bird
  • Black, white, red
  • In the devil's palette : tenth to thirteenth centuries
  • The devil and his images
  • The devil and his colors
  • A disturbing bestiary
  • To dispel the darkness
  • The monk's quarrel: white versus black
  • A new color order: the coat of arms
  • Who was the black knight?
  • A fashionable color : Fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
  • The colors of the skin
  • The Christianization of dark skin
  • Jesus with the dyer
  • Dyeing in black
  • The color's moral code
  • The luxury of princes
  • The gray of hope
  • The birth of the world in black and white : sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
  • Ink and paper
  • Color in black and white
  • Hachures and guillochures
  • The color war
  • The Protestant dress code
  • A very somber century
  • The return of the devil
  • New speculations, new classifications
  • A new order of colors
  • All the colors of black : eighteenth to twenty-first centuries
  • The triumph of color
  • The age of enlightenment
  • The poetics of melancholy
  • The age of coal and factories
  • Regarding images
  • A modern color
  • A dangerous color?

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