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White
Michel Pastoureau
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Kunst
Beschreibung
From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of the color white in visual culture, from antiquity to today
As a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of color, but it is without doubt an important color in its own right, just like red, blue, green, or yellow—and, like them, white has its own intriguing history. In this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau, a celebrated authority on the history of colors, presents a fascinating visual, social, and cultural history of the color white in European societies, from antiquity to today.
Illustrated throughout with a wealth of captivating images ranging from the ancient world to the twenty-first century, White examines the evolving place, perception, and meaning of this deceptively simple but complex hue in art, fashion, literature, religion, science, and everyday life across the millennia. Before the seventeenth century, white’s status as a true color was never contested. On the contrary, from antiquity until the height of the Middle Ages, white formed with red and black a chromatic triad that played a central role in life and art. Nor has white always been thought of as the opposite of black. Through the Middle Ages, the true opposite of white was red. White also has an especially rich symbolic history, and the color has often been associated with purity, virginity, innocence, wisdom, peace, beauty, and cleanliness.
With its striking design and compelling text, White is a colorful history of a surprisingly vivid and various color.
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Graphic novel, Battle of Fleurus (1794), Hellenistic period, François Rabelais, Heraldry, Literature, Parchment, Ezekiel, Chiaroscuro, Hygiene, Cosmetics, Pelagianism, Panache, Church Fathers, Emblem, Mourning, Battle of Ivry, Good and evil, Legitimists, Books of Kings, Calcite, Cistercians, Asclepius, Old High German, God, Fleur-de-lis, Lancelot and Guinevere, Patrologia Latina, Iconography, Blason, Chivalric romance, Early modern period, Peter the Venerable, Dyeing, Academic skepticism, Oxalic acid, Pope Innocent III, Guinevere, Nobility, Charles the Bald, Mithraism, Byzantium (color), Catharism, Chlorine, On the Eve, French Wars of Religion, Perfume, Hebrews, Middle French, Cleanliness, Discobolus, Chemise, Impressionism, Majesty, Gothic art, Humphry Davy, Poetry, Couleur, House of Guise, G. (novel), Huguenot, Classical Latin, Modernity, Ecru, Clothing, Linen, Immaculate Conception, Bestiary, Bliaut, Pigment