Green
The History of a Color
(Sprache: Englisch)
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,...
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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. 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Green “
Introduction 7 An uncertain color (From the beginning to the year 1000) 11 Did the Greeks see green? 14 Green among the Romans 20 The emerald and the leek 26 Hippodrome green 31 The silences of the Bible and the church fathers 36 A middle color 40 Islamic green 46 A courtly color (11th-14th centuries) 51 The beauty of green 54 A place for green: the orchard 58 A time for green: the spring 65 Youth, love, and hope 71 A chivalrous color 78 A green hero: Tristan 83 A dangerous color (14th-16th centuries) 87 Satan's green bestiary 90 From green to greenish 97 The green knight 103 The dyer's vats 112 "Gay green" and "lost green" 118 Heraldic green 125 The colors of the poet 129 A secondary color (16th-19th centuries) 135 Protestant morals 138 The green of painters 142 New knowledge, new classifications 152 Alceste's ribbons and the green of the theater 155 Superstitions and fairy tales 159 Green in the age of the enlightenment 167 A romantic color? 172 A soothing color (19th-21st centuries) 179 A fashionable color 182 Return to the palette 186 Chevreul and the scientists did not like green 193 Neither did Kandinsky or the Bauhaus 200 Green in everyday life 205 Nature in the heart of the cities 209 Green today 217 Acknowledgments 223 Notes 224 Bibliography 235 Photography credits 240
Autoren-Porträt von Michel Pastoureau
Michel Pastoureau ist seit 1983 Directeur d'études an der École pratique des hautes études, Abteilung IV (Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der abendländischen Symbolik) sowie Directeur d'études an der École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Lehrstuhl für Symbolgeschichte der europäischen Gesellschaften) in Paris. Der Mediävist forscht und lehrt vor allem auf den Gebieten der Heraldik, der mittelalterlichen Bestiarien und Zoologie und der Kulturgeschichte der Farben. Für seine zahlreichen Publikationen erhielt er 1996 die Ehrendoktorwürde der Universität Lausanne und 2010 gewann er den Prix Médicis in der Kategorie Essay.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Michel Pastoureau
- 2014, 240 Seiten, 120 Abbildungen, Maße: 24,3 x 24,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- ISBN-10: 069115936X
- ISBN-13: 9780691159362
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.08.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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