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Green : the history of a color /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Copyright Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- An uncertain color (From the beginning to the year 1000)
- Did the Greeks see green?
- Green among the Romans
- The emerald and the leek
- Hippodrome green
- The silences of the Bible and the church fathers
- A middle color
- Islamic green
- A courtly color (11th-14th centuries)
- The beauty of green
- A place for green: the orchard
- A time for green: the spring
- Youth, love, and hope
- A chivalrous color
- A green hero: Tristan
- A dangerous color (14th-16th centuries)
- Satan's green bestiary
- From green to greenish
- The green knight
- The dyer's vats
- "Gay green" and "lost green"
- Heraldic green
- The colors of the poet
- A secondary color (16th-19th centuries)
- Protestant morals
- The green of painters
- New knowledge, new classifications
- Alceste's ribbons and the green of the theater
- Superstitions and fairy tales
- Green in the age of the enlightenment
- A romantic color?
- A soothing color (19th-21st centuries)
- A fashionable color
- Return to the palette
- Chevreul and the scientists did not like green
- Neither did Kandinsky or the Bauhaus
- Green in everyday life
- Nature in the heart of the cities
- Green today
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Photography credits