Blue : the history of a color

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 cite it as their favorite color. In this fascinating history, the renowned medievalist Michel Pastoureau traces the changing meanings of blue fro...

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Main Author: Pastoureau, Michel, 1947-
Other Authors: Cruse, Mark (Translator)
Format: Livre numérique
Language:Anglais
Published: Princeton : Princeton University press 2023.
Paris : Cyberlibris
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Online Access:Accès Université Orléans et IFPM 
Note: Couverture. https://static2.cyberlibris.com/books_upload/136pix/9780691251356.jpg
Translated from the author's original work in French: Bleu : histoire d'une couleur
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Edition sous un autre format:• Blue, the history of a color, Michel Pastoureau, 2018, Princeton, Princeton University press, 1 vol. (216 p.), 0-691-18136-5
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505 0 |a Introduction : color is not black and white -- An uncommon color : prehistory to the twelfth century -- A new color : the eleventh to the fourteenth century -- A moral color : the fifteenth to the seventeenth century -- The favorite color : the eighteenth to the twentieth century -- Blue today 
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