Michel Pastoureau: White
White
Buch
- The History of a Color
- Übersetzung: Jody Gladding
- Princeton University Press, 01/2023
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780691243498
- Bestellnummer: 10940837
- Umfang: 240 Seiten
- Gewicht: 1386 g
- Maße: 244 x 240 mm
- Stärke: 27 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 24.1.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
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.Biografie (Michel Pastoureau)
Der Historiker Michel Pastoureau (-1947) bekleidet seit 1982 den Lehrstuhl für mittelalterliche Symbolik an der Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Er lehrt schwerpunktmäßig Symbolgeschichte der europäischen Gesellschaften. Seit den 1980er Jahren konzentriert er sich in seiner Forschungs- und Lehrtätigkeit vor allem auf die Geschichte der Farben. Daneben gilt sein Forschungsinteresse der Geschichte der Tiere, Bestiarien und Zoologie, vornehmlich des Mittelalters. Michel Pastoureau
White
EUR 47,86*