White : the history of a color / Michel Pastoureau ; translated by Jody Gladding.
From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of the color white in visual culture, from antiquity to todayAs a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of color, but it is without doubt an important color in its own right, just like red, blue, green, or yellow-...
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Princeton University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Foreword
- 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
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Credits