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100 1 $aPastoureau, Michel,$d1947-
240 10 $aNoir.$lEnglish
245 10 $aBlack :$bthe history of a color /$cMichel Pastoureau.
250 $aEnglish language ed.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2009.
300 $a210 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 207-210).
505 00 $tIn the beginning was black : from the beginning to the year 1000 --$tMythologies of darkness --$tFrom darkness to colors --$tFrom palette to lexicon --$tDeath and its color --$gThe$tblack bird --$tBlack, white, red --$tIn the devil's palette : tenth to thirteenth centuries --$gThe$tdevil and his images --$gThe$tdevil and his colors --$tA$tdisturbing bestiary --$tTo dispel the darkness --$gThe$tmonk's quarrel: white versus black --$gA$tnew color order: the coat of arms --$tWho was the black knight? --$gA$tfashionable color : Fourteenth to sixteenth centuries --$gThe$tcolors of the skin --$gThe$tChristianization of dark skin --$tJesus with the dyer --$tDyeing in black --$gThe$tcolor's moral code --$gThe$tluxury of princes --$gThe$tgray of hope --$gThe$tbirth of the world in black and white : sixteenth to eighteenth centuries --$tInk and paper --$tColor in black and white --$tHachures and guillochures --$gThe$tcolor war --$gThe$tProtestant dress code --$gA$tvery somber century --$gThe$treturn of the devil --$tNew speculations, new classifications --$gA$tnew order of colors --$tAll the colors of black : eighteenth to twenty-first centuries --$gThe$ttriumph of color --$gThe$tage of enlightenment --$gThe$tpoetics of melancholy --$gThe$tage of coal and factories --$tRegarding images --$gA$tmodern color --$gA$tdangerous color?
520 $aBlack, favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists, has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. In this book, the author of Blue now tells the fascinating social history of the color black in Europe. In the beginning was black, he tells us. The archetypal color of darkness and death, black was associated in the early Christian period with hell and the devil but also with monastic virtue. In the medieval era, black became the habit of courtiers and a hallmark of royal luxury. Black took on new meanings for early modern Europeans as they began to print words and images in black and white, and to absorb Isaac Newton's announcement that black was no color after all. During the romantic period, black was melancholy's friend, while in the twentieth century black (and white) came to dominate art, print, photography, and film, and was finally restored to the status of a true color. For the author, the history of any color must be a social history first because it is societies that give colors everything from their changing names to their changing meanings, and black is exemplary in this regard. In dyes, fabrics, and clothing, and in painting and other art works, black has always been a forceful and ambivalent shaper of social, symbolic, and ideological meaning in European societies.
650 0 $aBlack.
650 0 $aColor$xPsychological aspects$xHistory.
650 0 $aColor$xSocial aspects$xHistory.
650 0 $aSymbolism of colors$xHistory.
650 0 $aBlack in art.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aPastoureau, Michel, 1947-$sNoir. English.$tBlack.$bEnglish language ed.$dPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009$w(OCoLC)647361662
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