Michel Pastoureau: Green, Gebunden
Green
- The History of a Color
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press, 08/2014
- Binding:
- Gebunden, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780691159362
- Item number:
- 5156870
- Volume:
- 240 Pages
- other:
- 120 figs.
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2014
- Weight:
- 1363 g
- Format:
- 244 x 243 mm
- Thickness:
- 30 mm
- Release date:
- 24.8.2014
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Description
In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to today. Examining the evolving place of green in art, clothes, literature, religion, science, and everyday life, Michel Pastoureau traces how culture has profoundly changed the perception and meaning of the color over millennia--and how we misread cultural, social, and art history when we assume that colors have always signified what they do today. More broadly, Green demonstrates that the history of the color is, to a large degree, one of dramatic reversal: long absent, ignored, or rejected, green today has become a ubiquitous and soothing presence as the symbol of environmental causes and the mission to save the planet.
Review
Praise for the French edition: "A beautiful presentation of a long-unloved color."--Daphné Bétard, Beaux-Arts
Blurb
The acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to today. Examining the evolving place of green in art, clothes, literature, religion, science, and everyday life, Michel Pastoureau traces how culture has profoundly changed the perception and meaning of the color over millennia--and how we misread cultural, social, and art history when we assume that colors have always signified what they do today.
Biography
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.
