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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 a...

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A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the ages Blue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now ...

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This striking volume celebrates colour in photography. Hundreds of images by some of the biggest names in photography are organized into colour-coded chapters, each introduced by an essay from the historian Michel Pastoureau. Among the featured ph...

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Black--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 holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and b...

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A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color red throughout the ages The color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up through the Middle Ages, red held a place of priv...

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From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the present In this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureaua renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blu...

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Michel Pastoureau's lively study of stripes offers a unique and engaging perspective on the evolution of fashion, taste, and visual codes in Western culture. The Devil's Cloth begins with a medieval scandal. When the first Carmelites arr...

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The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. The lion was not always king. From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bears centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, lite...

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From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of the color white in visual culture, from antiquity to today As a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of color, but it is without doubt an important color in...

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From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of the color white in visual culture, from antiquity to todayAs a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of color, but it is without doubt an important color in ...

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A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the agesBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now c...

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What remains of the colours of our childhood? What are our memories of a blue rabbit, a red dress, a yellow bike and were they really those colours? What colours do we associate with our student years, our first loves, our adult lives? How does co...

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What remains of the colours of our childhood? What are our memories of a blue rabbit, a red dress, a yellow bike and were they really those colours? What colours do we associate with our student years, our first loves, our adult lives? How does co...

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What remains of the colours of our childhood? What are our memories of a blue rabbit, a red dress, a yellow bike and were they really those colours? What colours do we associate with our student years, our first loves, our adult lives? How does co...

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Dass ein bestimmter Geschmack oder ein spezieller Geruch eine ganze Dominokette an Erinnerungen auslösen kann, dass das Gedächtnis eine sinnliche Erfahrung speichert und mit bestimmten Gefühlen verknüpft, ist in der Literatur oft beschrieben worde...

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Lieblingsfarbe? Bunt! Ein so persönliches wie allgemeingültiges Panoptikum über die Bedeutung der Farben in Alltag, Kunst und Geschichte. Ein vielfarbiges, freihÿndig erzÿhltes Sachbuch.Dass ein bestimmter Geschmack oder ein spezieller Geruch...

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Que tienen en comun el caballo de Troya y los jabalies de Obelix, la famosa loba romana y el monstruo del lago Ness?Qu sabemos realmente de los animales de la Biblia (la serpiente del pecado original), la Mitologa (el Minotauro) y los cmics (Micke...

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Que queda de los colores de nuestra infancia? Que recuerdos conservamos?Un conejo de peluche azul, un vestido rojo, una bicicleta de color amarillo? Eran realmente de ese color?Qu colores asociamos a nuestro primer amor, a nuestra vida adulta? Tra...

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