Blue : the history of a color /

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"Blue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. Once considered a hot color, it is now icy cool. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now pick it as their favorite color. In this history, the renowned medievalist Michel Pastoure...

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Main Author: Pastoureau, Michel, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Created: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Blue.
Color > Psychological aspects > History.
Color > Social aspects > History.
Symbolism of colors > History.
Blue in art.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Color Is Not Black and White 7
  • 1 An Uncommon Color: Prehistory to the Twelfth Century 13
  • 2 A New Color: The Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century 49
  • 3 A Moral Color: The Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century 85
  • 4 Favorite Color: The Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century 123
  • 5 Blue Today 179.

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