TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pastoureau,Michel
TI  - Green: The History of a Color 
SN  - 9780691251363
AV  - BF789.C7 P39513 2014
U1  - 155.9/1145 23
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Color
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Green
KW  - Symbolism of colors
KW  - Hisstory
KW  - ART / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Adage
KW  - Alchemy
KW  - Bestiary
KW  - Camille Desmoulins
KW  - Charles Perrault
KW  - Chivalry
KW  - Church Fathers
KW  - Classical Latin
KW  - Clothing
KW  - Coat of arms
KW  - Codex Manesse
KW  - Couleur
KW  - Courtesy
KW  - Courtly love
KW  - Deal with the Devil
KW  - Dyeing
KW  - Emblem
KW  - Everyday life
KW  - Fauvism
KW  - French heraldry
KW  - German Romanticism
KW  - Giovanni Bellini
KW  - Godfrey Kneller
KW  - Greek Medicine
KW  - Green Revolution
KW  - Green eyeshade
KW  - Grisaille
KW  - Guillaume de Machaut
KW  - Heraldry
KW  - Home appliance
KW  - Iconography
KW  - Illuminated manuscript
KW  - Invention
KW  - Iseult
KW  - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
KW  - Juvenal
KW  - La Chasse (painting)
KW  - Le Morte d'Arthur
KW  - Leonardo da Vinci
KW  - Ludwig Tieck
KW  - Medieval Latin
KW  - Merlin
KW  - Middle French
KW  - Morgan le Fay
KW  - Objet d'art
KW  - Paul Gauguin
KW  - Paul Klee
KW  - Paul Legrand
KW  - Perlesvaus
KW  - Physiognomy
KW  - Pierre Mignard
KW  - Pigment
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Pope Innocent III
KW  - Primary color
KW  - Prose Tristan
KW  - Pyramus and Thisbe
KW  - Rambouillet
KW  - Robinet Testard
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Round Table
KW  - Sinopia
KW  - Symbolic power
KW  - The Color of Water
KW  - The Greene Knight
KW  - The Other Hand
KW  - Ultramarine
KW  - Valet
KW  - Vinegar
KW  - Wild man
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; An uncertain color --; A courtly color --; A dangerous color --; A secondary color --; A soothing color --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Photography credits; restricted access
N2  - 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.Filled with entertaining and enlightening anecdotes, Green shows that the color has been ambivalent: a symbol of life, luck, and hope, but also disorder, greed, poison, and the devil. Chemically unstable, green pigments were long difficult to produce and even harder to fix. Not surprisingly, the color has been associated with all that is changeable and fleeting: childhood, love, and money. Only in the Romantic period did green definitively become the color of nature.Pastoureau also explains why the color was connected with the Roman emperor Nero, how it became the color of Islam, why Goethe believed it was the color of the middle class, why some nineteenth-century scholars speculated that the ancient Greeks couldn't see green, and how the color was denigrated by Kandinsky and the Bauhaus.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.With its striking design and compelling text, Green will delight anyone who is interested in history, culture, art, fashion, or media
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691251363?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691251363
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691251363/original
ER  -