Michel Pastoureau (Author of Blue) (Eugenia Moss) Blue has a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. Pastoureau has created something rare: a coffee table book that is also a good read. " Yellow: The History of a Color is the fifth such volume that Pastoureau has produced. Black - The History of a color.
This is a study not of color as mere matter but as idea--presenting thousands of years of thinking in blue."--Michael Camille, author of The Medieval Art of Love and Glorious Visions Michel Pastoureau is a historian and emeritus director of studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études de la Sorbonne in Paris.
Both are lavishly illustrated coffee table books that follow their colors down the time line of European history. rench historian Michel Pastoureau, whose Blue: The History of a Color has just been re-released to English-speaking audiences, is one of our age's great librarians of civilization.
The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now pick it as their favorite color. This is a study not of color as mere matter but as idea--presenting thousands of years of thinking in blue."--Michael Camille, author of The Medieval Art of Love and Glorious Visions From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the present In this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau―a renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blue, black, green, and red―now traces the visual, social, and cultural history of yellow. Michel Pastoureau paints a massive canvas in which the history of one color becomes the history of culture itself.
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