White (eBook)

The History of a Color

Michel Pastoureau (Autor)

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2023
240 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-25030-4 (ISBN)

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From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of the color white in visual culture, from antiquity to todayAs 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 yellowand, like them, white has its own intriguing history. In this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau, a celebrated authority on the history of colors, presents a fascinating visual, social, and cultural history of the color white in European societies, from antiquity to today.Illustrated throughout with a wealth of captivating images ranging from the ancient world to the twenty-first century, White examines the evolving place, perception, and meaning of this deceptively simple but complex hue in art, fashion, literature, religion, science, and everyday life across the millennia. Before the seventeenth century, white's status as a true color was never contested. On the contrary, from antiquity until the height of the Middle Ages, white formed with red and black a chromatic triad that played a central role in life and art. Nor has white always been thought of as the opposite of black. Through the Middle Ages, the true opposite of white was red. White also has an especially rich symbolic history, and the color has often been associated with purity, virginity, innocence, wisdom, peace, beauty, and cleanliness.With its striking design and compelling text, White is a colorful history of a surprisingly vivid and various color.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.1.2023
• Reihe/Serie: The History of a Color
• Übersetzer: Jody Gladding
• Vorwort: Roland Betancourt
• Zusatzinfo: 130 color illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Academic skepticism • Asclepius • Battle of Fleurus (1794) • Battle of Ivry • Bestiary • Blason • bliaut • Books of Kings • Byzantium (color) • Calcite • Catharism • Charles the Bald • chemise • Chiaroscuro • chivalric romance • Chlorine • Church Fathers • Cistercians • classical latin • cleanliness • Clothing • Cosmetics • couleur • Discobolus • dyeing • early modern period • Ecru • Emblem • Ezekiel • Fleur-de-lis • François Rabelais • French wars of religion • G. (novel) • God • Good and evil • gothic art • Graphic Novel • Guinevere • Hebrews • Hellenistic period • heraldry • House of Guise • huguenot • Humphry Davy • Hygiene • Iconography • immaculate conception • Impressionism • Lancelot and Guinevere • Legitimists • linen • Literature • Majesty • Middle French • Mithraism • Modernity • Mourning • Nobility • Old High German • On the Eve • Oxalic acid • panache • Parchment • Patrologia Latina • pelagianism • perfume • Peter the Venerable • Pigment • Poetry • Pope Innocent III • popular sovereignty • Praxiteles • printing • Protestant reformers • Real Book • rebuke • Requiem • Robert Estienne • Rococo • Roman Religion • Saponin • sensibility • Shades of white • Sirach • still life • Sumptuary law • TALC • Textile • The Black Monk • Theology • The Other Hand • The Queries • The Various • Tintoretto • tunic • undergarment • virginity • Weighing of souls • Western Painting • White Hart
• ISBN-10: 0-691-25030-8 / 0691250308
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-25030-4 / 9780691250304