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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     MacCannell, Daniel, author.     Subjects     Rainbows.     Rainbows -- History.     Rainbows -- Mythology.     Rainbows in literature.     Rainbows in art.     Browse Catalog     by author:      MacCannell, Daniel, author.       by title:      Rainbows / Daniel Ma...         MARC Display

Rainbows / Daniel MacCannell. by MacCannell, Daniel, author. London, UK : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2018. Subjects Rainbows.   Rainbows -- History.   Rainbows -- Mythology.   Rainbows in literature.   Rainbows in art. ISBN:  9781780239200 (paperback) : 1780239203 (paperback) Series:  Earth series (Reaktion Books (Firm)) Description:  206 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm. Contents:  What rainbows are and how they work -- Rainbows in the history of scientific enquiry -- Rainbows and myth -- Rainbows in literature, poetry and music -- Rainbows in art and film -- Rainbows in politics and popular culture. Requests:  0 Summary:  The rainbow is a compelling spectacle in nature--a rare, evanescent, and beautiful bridge between subjective experience and objective reality--and no less remarkable as a cultural phenomenon. A symbol of the Left since the German Peasants' War of the 1520s, it has been adopted by movements for gay rights, the environment, multiculturalism, and peace around the globe, and has inspired poets, artists, and writers including John Keats, Caspar David Friedrich, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this book, the first of its kind, Daniel MacCannell offers an enlightening and instructive guide to the rainbow's multicolored relationship with humanity.The scientific 'discovery' of the rainbow is a remarkable tale, taking in ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Persia, and Islamic Spain. But even as we've studied rainbows, adopted their image, and penned odes to them for millennia, rainbows have also been regarded as ominous or even dangerous in myth and religion. In the twentieth century, the rainbow emerged as kitsch, arcing from the musical film version of The Wizard of Oz to 1980s sitcoms and children's cartoons. Illustrated throughout in prismatic color, MacCannell's Rainbows explores the full spectrum of rainbows' nature and meaning, offering insight into what rainbows are and how they work, how we arrived at our current scientific understanding of the phenomenon, and how we have portrayed them in everything from myth to the arts, politics, and popular culture.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 551.567 Ma Checked out 05/30/2024 Add Copy to MyList

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