White : the history of a color / Michel Pastoureau ; translated by Jody Gladding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pastoureau, Michel, 1947- author.

Contributor:

Gladding, Jody, 1955- translator.

Standardized Title:

Blanc. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

White.

White in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

"First published in the French language by Éditions du Seuil, Paris, under the title Blanc: histoire d'une couleur ... ©2022."

Summary:

"From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of the color white in visual culture, from antiquity to today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

The Color of the Gods From Earliest Times to The Beginning of Christianity. From Nature to Culture ; The Moon and the Sacred ; A False Image : White Greece ; Wool and Linen : Dressing in White ; The Lessons of the Lexicon ; White versus Black

The Color of Christ Fourth to Fourteenth Centuries. Biblical White ; A Christian Color ; White versus Red ; Regarding the Lily : A White Floriary ; The Lamb, the Swan, and the Dove : A White Bestiary ; A Feminine Color

The Color of Kings Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. The Birth of a Symbolic System ; White, First among the Colors ; Birth and Death in White ; The Color of Nobility ; The White of the Monarchy ; Ink and Paper

The Color of Modernity Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries. White and Black : No Longer Colors ; The White of Artists ; From Cleanliness to Health ; Dressing in White ; Lexicons and Symbols.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-234).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691250304

0691250308

OCLC:

1357549963