{"product_id":"green-the-history-of-a-color-hardcover","title":"Green: The History of a Color - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichel Pastoureau\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eBlue\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlack \u003c\/i\u003epresents 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFilled with entertaining and enlightening anecdotes, \u003ci\u003eGreen\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePastoureau 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 class, why some nineteenth-century scholars speculated that the ancient Greeks couldn't see green, and how the color was denigrated by Kandinsky and the Bauhaus. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore broadly, \u003ci\u003eGreen \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates that the history of the color is, to a large degree, one of dramatic reversal: long absent, ignored, or rejected, green today has become a ubiquitous and soothing presence as the symbol of environmental causes and the mission to save the planet. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith its striking design and compelling text, \u003ci\u003eGreen\u003c\/i\u003e will delight anyone who is interested in history, culture, art, fashion, or media.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for the French edition: \"Filled with surprising insights and astonishing details, and as playful and humorous as it is erudite, Michel Pastoureau's \u003ci\u003eGreen\u003c\/i\u003e is an entertaining lesson about the way our visual perceptions are modified by culture. With carefully selected and cleverly captioned illustrations, this beautiful book will appeal to general readers as well as scholars. The writing is simple and effective, making for an easy and entertaining read.\"\u003cb\u003e--Jean-Baptiste Evette, prize-winning French novelist and translator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for the French edition: \"This book is a rare fusion of accessible, entertaining writing and rich humanistic learning. Much of the argument is made through historical anecdotes, and Pastoureau has a knack for finding stories that are both instructive and interesting. \u003ci\u003eGreen\u003c\/i\u003e should appeal to historians, art historians, and other scholars in the humanities, as well as to a broad general audience.\"\u003cb\u003e--David O'Brien, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichel Pastoureau\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian and director of studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études de la Sorbonne in Paris. A specialist in the history of colors, symbols, and heraldry, he is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eBlue\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlack\u003c\/i\u003e (both Princeton) and \u003ci\u003eThe Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes\u003c\/i\u003e. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 9.53 x 9.45 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 24, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756995379488,"sku":"9780691159362","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/148ddc765b36fab84885448038d76052.webp?v=1780091220","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/green-the-history-of-a-color-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}