A History of Stripes and Striped Fabric
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Köp båda 2 för 829 krPastoureau... is eminently qualified to explore the stripe's peculiar historical trajectory...The Devil's Cloth gets to the heart of matters like the way we perceive color and pattern, and speculates interestingly on whether these perceptions derive from nature or nurture... this playful but learned book will doubtless have an influence. -- Angeline Goreau The New York Times Book Review Reading about the epic implications of stripes... you feel like a child gleefully taking apart a toy, examining its small components one by one, then putting it back together. You've figured out how it works, how its parts relate to the whole. Only that toy is the entire history of the universe. What could be more empowering? New York Times (National edition) An oddball and charming little biography of a very devious pattern. Who knew that striped fabrics, now a kind of a shorthand for Class, were, from medieval times onward, so fraught with dangerous meaning? Esquire [An] intriguing little book. Library Journal The Devil's Cloth kept this reader at the edge of her seat. Seattle Times [A] unique little book. Forbes FYI Thinking of wearing that pinstriped suit for lunch with the boss? Or that fancy silk tie? Just be thankful that you didn't live a few hundred years ago, when a getup like that would not only have blown any chance for a raise but could very well have gotten you killed... It was this unlikely observation that prompted Mr. Pastoureau's book. -- Emily Eakin The New York Times
Michel Pastoureau is a leading authority on medieval heraldry. He is the coauthor of The Bible and the Saints and Heraldry: An Introduction to a Noble Tradition.
Preface Order and Disorder of the Stripe The Devil and His Striped Clothes (13th-16th Centuries) The Carmel Scandal Striped Fabric, Bad Fabric Saint Joseph's Breeches Plain, Striped, Patterned, Spotted The Figure and the Background: Heraldry and the Stripe From the Horizontal to the Vertical and Back (16th-19th Centuries) From the Diabolic to the Domestic From the Domestic to the Romantic The Revolutionary Stripe To Stripe and to Punish Stripes for the Present Time (19th-20th Centuries) Hygiene of the Stripe A World in Navy Blue and White Oddball Zebras Striped Surface, Dangerous Surface From the Trace to the Mark Bibliographic Orientation List of Illustrations About the Author Notes Index