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the history of a color

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An edition of Black: the history of a color (2008)

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the history of a color

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Black, 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.

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Language
English
Pages
210

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Black: the history of a color
2008, Princeton University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

Published in
Princeton, N.J

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
155.9/1145
Library of Congress
BF789.C7 P3813 2008, BF789.C7 P3813 2009, BF789.C7P3813 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
210

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16925627M
Internet Archive
blackhistoryofco0000past
ISBN 13
9780691139302
LCCN
2008025145
OCLC/WorldCat
231587317
Library Thing
6726005
Goodreads
4867312

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