MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02459cam a2200337 a 4500
001 2008025145
003 DLC
005 20090901063952.0
008 080612s2009 njua b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2008025145
020 $a9780691139302 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a069113930X (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn231587317
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBTCTA$dBAKER$dYDXCP$dOCLCG$dC#P$dBWX$dCDX$dVP@$dYBM$dDLC
041 1 $aeng$hfre
050 00 $aBF789.C7$bP3813 2009
082 00 $a155.9/1145$222
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 0 $aIn 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 -- 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? -- 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 -- 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 -- 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?
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.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0821/2008025145.html