Blue : the history of a color /
"Blue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. Once considered a hot color, it is now icy cool. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now pick it as their favorite color. In this history, the renowned medievalist Michel Pastoure...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c2001.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: Color Is Not Black and White
- 1 An Uncommon Color: Prehistory to the Twelfth Century
- 2 A New Color: The Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century
- 3 A Moral Color: The Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century
- 4 The Favorite Color: The Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
- 5 Blue Today
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Photography Credits