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Black. History of color

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Black. History of color
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This monograph is a continuation of French historian Michel Pastoureau's large-scale project on the history of color in Western European societies, from Ancient Rome to the 18th century, which he began with a study of Europeans' relationship with the color blue. This time Pastoureau focuses on one of the most mysterious and contradictory colors with a very complicated fate - black. The author undertakes a real detective investigation into the adventures and often misadventures of black color in Western European culture. The color of primordial darkness, the Black Death and the Black Knight, in the Middle Ages it migrated to the robes of monks, soon became dominant in the Protestant closet, became the favorite color of lawyers and merchants, in the era of romanticism was an indispensable sign of melancholic coverings, and later a marker of elegance and chic and at the same time an indispensable attribute of everyday life of the city dweller.
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