Red: The History of a Color

Pastoureau, Michel ; Jody Gladding

ISBN 10: 0691172773 / ISBN 13: 9780691172774

Verlag: Princeton University Press, USA, 2016

Beschreibung

Another magnificent account by Pastoureau. pp216, illus. DW in archival sleeve.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 011067

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Red: The History of a Color
• Verlag: Princeton University Press, USA
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0691172773
• ISBN-13: 9780691172774
• Einband: Cloth
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine
• Verkäuferkataloge:
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A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color red throughout the ages The color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up through the Middle Ages, red held a place of privilege in the Western world. For many cultures, red was not just one color of many but rather the only color worthy enough to be used for social purposes. In some languages, the word for red was the same as the word for color. The first color developed for painting and dying, red became associated in antiquity with war, wealth, and power. In the medieval period, red held both religious significance, as the color of the blood of Christ and the fires of Hell, and secular meaning, as a symbol of love, glory, and beauty. Yet during the Protestant Reformation, red began to decline in status. Viewed as indecent and immoral and linked to luxury and the excesses of the Catholic Church, red fell out of favor. After the French Revolution, red gained new respect as the color of progressive movements and radical left-wing politics. In this beautifully illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau, the acclaimed author of Blue, Black, and Green, now masterfully navigates centuries of symbolism and complex meanings to present the fascinating and sometimes controversial history of the color red. Pastoureau illuminates red's evolution through a diverse selection of captivating images, including the cave paintings of Lascaux, the works of Renaissance masters, and the modern paintings and stained glass of Mark Rothko and Josef Albers.

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Michel Pastoureau is a historian and director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes de la Sorbonne in Paris. A specialist in the history of colors, symbols, and heraldry, he is the author of many books, including Green, Black, and Blue (all Princeton) and The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages.