TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pastoureau,Michel
TI  - Black: the history of a color 
SN  - 9780691139302
AV  - BF789.C7 P3813 2009
U1  - 155.9/1145 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Black
KW  - Color
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Symbolism of colors
KW  - Black in art
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-210); In the beginning was black : from the beginning to the year 1000 -- Mythologies of darkness -- From darkness to colors -- From palette to lexicon -- Death and its color -- The  black bird -- Black, white, red -- In the devil's palette : tenth to thirteenth centuries -- The devil and his images -- The devil and his colors -- A disturbing bestiary -- To dispel the darkness -- The monk's quarrel: white versus black -- A new color order: the coat of arms -- Who was the black knight? -- A fashionable color : Fourteenth to sixteenth centuries -- The colors of the skin -- The Christianization of dark skin -- Jesus with the dyer -- Dyeing in black -- The color's moral code -- The luxury of princes -- The gray of hope -- The birth of the world in black and white : sixteenth to eighteenth centuries -- Ink and paper -- Color in black and white -- Hachures and guillochures -- The color war -- The Protestant dress code -- A very somber century -- The return of the devil -- New speculations, new classifications -- A new order of colors -- All the colors of black : eighteenth to twenty-first centuries -- The triumph of color -- The age of enlightenment -- The poetics of melancholy -- The age of coal and factories -- Regarding images -- A modern color -- A dangerous color?
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