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"The unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume. [This book] tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to...
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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 from its rare appearance in prehistoric art to its international ubiquity today. Any history of color is, above all, a social history. Pastoureau investigates...
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"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,...
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"From prehistory to the present day, colors have shaped our world in more ways than you might expect. Discover how colors have started wars, created fortunes, and inspired artists and inventors. Have you ever wondered what colors actually are? The ones you see might look or feel different to other people! So come on a kaleidoscope tour across continents and through time, exploring the incredible stories and secrets of colors."--
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"Why did Roman emperors wear purple? Which colour is made from crushed beetles? Why is the Chicago River dyed green? From vermilion to verdigris, every shade has a story to tell. Embark on a vibrant journey to discover the part each color has played in history."--Back cover.
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"The color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up through the Middle Ages, red held a place of privilege in the Western world. For many cultures, red was not just one color of many but rather the only color worthy enough to be used for social purposes--in some languages, the word for red was the same as the word for color. The first color developed for painting and dying, red became associated...
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"Illuminated with a wide variety of images, this book traces the long history of yellow around the world. In antiquity, yellow was considered a sacred color, a symbol of light, warmth, wealth, and prosperity. But in medieval Europe, it became highly ambivalent: greenish yellow came to signify demonic sulfur and bile, the color of forgers, felon knights, traitors, Judas, and Lucifer--while warm yellow recalled honey and gold, serving as a sign of joy,...
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This text provides an exploration of black, following our ambiguous relationship with this most 'accursed' of colours throughout cultures worldwide. The book asks whether black is in fact a colour at all, and also describes the use and meaning of black in art, literature, issues of race, advertising, and popular culture.
"As a colour, black is a single hue. It comes in no other shades. It is pure darkness, absorber of all light. But despite its commonly...
20) The power of colors: discover the path to self-healing and personal transformation through colors
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"In this second edition of Noah Goldhirsh's acclaimed The Power of Colors, the author shares the meaning of the full spectrum of colors that surround us and how they affect us physically, psychologically and emotionally, showing how we can use their power to understand our strengths and how to maximize these to realize our full potential. With the help of the Wheel of Colors, drawn from Native American culture, she shows us how to discover which colors...
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