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Green : The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau is a art available to read on EtoBox.
What is Green : The History of a Color about?
In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of __Blue__ and __Black__ presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to today. Examining the evolving place of green in art, clothes, literature, religion, science, and everyday life, Michel Pastoureau traces how culture has profoundly changed the perception and meaning of the color over millennia—and how we misread cultural, social, and art history when we assume that colors have always signified what they do today.Filled with entertaining and enlightening anecdotes, __Green__ shows that the color has been ambivalent: a symbol of life, luck, and hope, but also disorder, greed, poison, and the devil. Chemically unstable, green pigments were long difficult to produce and even harder to fix. Not surprisingly, the color has been associated with all that is changeable and fleeting: childhood, love, and money. Only in the Romantic period did green definitively become the color of nature.Pastoureau also explains why the color was connected with the Roman emperor Nero, how it became the color of Islam, why Goethe believed it was the color of the middle clas
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- Author
- Michel Pastoureau
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691159362
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Psychology, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.17 / 5 (56 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14