Black : the history of a color / Michel Pastoureau.
2009
155.91145 P293bl 2009
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Title
Black : the history of a color / Michel Pastoureau.
Author
Uniform Title
Noir. English
Edition
English language ed.
ISBN
9780691139302 (hardcover : alk. paper)
069113930X (hardcover : alk. paper)
069113930X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Imprint
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009.
Language
English
Description
210 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Call Number
155.91145 P293bl 2009
System Control No.
(OCoLC)231587317
(OCoLC)231587317
(OCoLC)231587317
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-210).
Formatted Contents Note
pt. 1. In the beginning was black : from the beginning to the year 1000.
Mythologies of darkness
From darkness to colors
From palette to lexicon
Death and its color
The black bird
Black, white, red
pt. 2. In the devil's palette : tenth to thirteenth centuries.
The devil and his images
The devil and his colors
A disturbing bestiary
To dispel the darkness
The monk's quarrel: white versus black
A new color order: the coat of arms
Who was the black knight?
pt. 3. A fashionable color : Fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.
The colors of the skin
The Christianization of dark skin
Jesus with the dyer
Dyeing in black
The color's moral code
The luxury of princes
The gray of hope
pt. 4. The birth of the world in black and white : sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.
Ink and paper
Color in black and white
Hachures and guillochures
The color war
The Protestant dress code
A very somber century
The return of the devil
New speculations, new classifications
A new order of colors
pt. 5. All the colors of black : eighteenth to twenty-first centuries.
The triumph of color
The age of enlightenment
The poetics of melancholy
The age of coal and factories
Regarding images
A modern color
A dangerous color?
Mythologies of darkness
From darkness to colors
From palette to lexicon
Death and its color
The black bird
Black, white, red
pt. 2. In the devil's palette : tenth to thirteenth centuries.
The devil and his images
The devil and his colors
A disturbing bestiary
To dispel the darkness
The monk's quarrel: white versus black
A new color order: the coat of arms
Who was the black knight?
pt. 3. A fashionable color : Fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.
The colors of the skin
The Christianization of dark skin
Jesus with the dyer
Dyeing in black
The color's moral code
The luxury of princes
The gray of hope
pt. 4. The birth of the world in black and white : sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.
Ink and paper
Color in black and white
Hachures and guillochures
The color war
The Protestant dress code
A very somber century
The return of the devil
New speculations, new classifications
A new order of colors
pt. 5. All the colors of black : eighteenth to twenty-first centuries.
The triumph of color
The age of enlightenment
The poetics of melancholy
The age of coal and factories
Regarding images
A modern color
A dangerous color?
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