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Michel Pastoureau
From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of the color white in visual culture, from antiquity to today
As a pigment, white is often thought to represent…
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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 and sin and holiness. This book…
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From the acclaimed author of Blue and other color histories, the beautifully illustrated story of pink, from the first ancient pigments to Barbie
Pink has such powerful associations today that…
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First published in French language by Editions du Seuil, Paris, under the title Vert, Histoire d'une couleur. c2013–Page facing title page.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Art and Nature in the Middle Ages, organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, in cooperation with the Musaee de Cluny in Paris, and…
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A renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blue, black, green, and red now traces the visual, social, and cultural history of yellow…
What do prostitutes, referees, and Renaissance clowns have in common? They all wear stripes, and The Devil’s Cloth tells us why. Pastoureau’s lively study of stripes offers a unique perspective…
Translation of: Rouge: histoire d'une couleur.
Blue has a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. This work traces the changing meanings of blue from its rare appearances in prehistoric art to its international ubiquity…
* Michel Pastoureau is a very accomplished French historian who is well known for his books on colour. * This new book is a more personal reflection on ‘the colour…
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From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear’s centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends. Michel Pastoureau considers how this once venerated creature was…
