White : The History of a Color /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pastoureau, Michel, 1947- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Gladding, Jody, 1955- (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
White in art.
White.
Blanc dans l'art.
Blanc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The Color of the Gods: from earliest times to the beginning of Christianity
  • From nature to culture
  • The moon and the sacred
  • A false image: white Greece
  • Wool and linen: dressing in white
  • The lessons of the lexicon
  • White versus black
  • The Color of Christ: fourth to fourteenth centuries
  • Biblical white
  • A Christian color
  • White versus red
  • Regarding the lily: a white floriary
  • The Lamb, the swan, and the dove: a white bestiary
  • A feminine color
  • The Color of Kings: fifteenth to eighteenth centuries
  • The birth of a symbolic system
  • White, first among the colors
  • Birth and death in white
  • The color of nobility
  • The white of the monarchy
  • Ink and paper
  • The Color of Modernity: eighteenth to twenty-first centuries
  • White and black: no longer colors
  • The white of artists
  • From cleanliness to health
  • Dressing in white
  • Lexicons and symbols.

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