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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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 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.