Black : : The History of a Color / / / Michel Pastoureau.

• VerfasserIn: Pastoureau, Michel,
• Author: Pastoureau, Michel,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 106 color illus.

The story of the color black in art, fashion, and culture-from the beginning of history to the twenty-first centuryBlack-favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists-has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holine...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• INTRODUCTION
• 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 Monks' 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?
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS