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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Pastoureau, Michel, 1947-     Subjects     Blue.     Color -- Psychological aspects -- History.     Color -- Social aspects -- History.     Symbolism of colors -- History.     Blue in art.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Pastoureau, Michel, 1947-       by title:      Blue : the history o...         MARC Display

Blue : the history of a color / Michel Pastoureau. by Pastoureau, Michel, 1947- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2001. Subjects Blue.   Color -- Psychological aspects -- History.   Color -- Social aspects -- History.   Symbolism of colors -- History.   Blue in art. ISBN:  9780691181363 (hardcover) 0691181365 (hardcover) Description:  216 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 Pastoureau traces the changing meanings of blue from its rare appearances in prehistoric art to its international ubiquity today in blue jeans and Gauloises cigarette packs." "Pastoureau investigates how the ever-changing role of blue in society has been reflected in manuscripts, stained glass, heraldry, clothing, paintings, and popular culture. Beginning with the almost total absence of blue from ancient Western art and language, the story moves to medieval Europe. As people began to associate blue with the Virgin Mary, the color became a powerful element in church decoration and symbolism, despite the resistance of chromophobic prelates. Blue gained new favor as a royal color in the twelfth century and became a formidable political and military force through the French Revolution. As blue triumphed in the modern era, new shades were created and blue became the color of romance, the Romantics, and the blues. Finally, Pastoureau follows blue into contemporary times, when military clothing gave way to the everyday uniform of blue jeans and blue became the universal and unifying color of the Earth as seen from space." "With an elegant design and illustrated with nearly one hundred color plates, Blue tells the history of our favorite color and the cultures that have hated it, loved it, and created great art with it."--Jacket.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 155.91145 Pa Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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