Green
the history of a color
By Michel Pastoureau
"Green" was published by Princeton University Press in 2014 - nju, it has 239 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Green” Metadata:
- Title: Green
- Author: Michel Pastoureau
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 239
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publish Date: 2014
- Publish Location: nju
“Green” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Color - Symbolism of colors - Green - History - Color, psychological aspects - Hisstory - Grèun - Farbensymbolik - Wahrnehmung - Kultur - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology - Psychological aspects - Social aspects
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: 239 pages
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL27168623M - OL19988503W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 864789687
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2013043893
- ISBN-13: 9780691159362
- ISBN-10: 069115936X
- All ISBNs: 069115936X - 9780691159362
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"Green" Table Of Contents:
- 1- An uncertain color (from the beginning to the year 1000)
- 2- A courtly color (11th-14th centuries)
- 3- A dangerous color (14th-16th centuries)
- 4- A secondary color (16th-19th centuries)
- 5- A soothing color (19th-21st centuries).
"Green" Description:
The Open Library:
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 everyday life, Michel Pastoureau traces how culture has profoundly changed the perception and meaning of the color over millennia--and how we misread cultural, social, and art history when we assume that colors have always signified what they do today. Filled with entertaining and enlightening anecdotes, Green shows that the color has been ambivalent: a symbol of life, luck, and hope, but also disorder, greed, poison, and the devil. Chemically unstable, green pigments were long difficult to produce and even harder to fix. Not surprisingly, the color has been associated with all that is changeable and fleeting: childhood, love, and money. Only in the Romantic period did green definitively become the color of nature. Pastoureau also explains why the color was connected with the Roman emperor Nero, how it became the color of Islam, why Goethe believed it was the color of the middle class, why some nineteenth-century scholars speculated that the ancient Greeks couldn't see green, and how the color was denigrated by Kandinsky and the Bauhaus. More broadly, Green demonstrates that the history of the color is, to a large degree, one of dramatic reversal: long absent, ignored, or rejected, green today has become a ubiquitous and soothing presence as the symbol of environmental causes and the mission to save the planet. With its striking design and compelling text, Green will delight anyone who is interested in history, culture, art, fashion, or media.
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