Black av Michel Pastoureau

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<p><b>The story of the color black in art, fashion, and culture¿from the beginning of history to the twenty-first century</b><br><br>Black¿favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists¿has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of <i>Blue</i> now tells the fascinating social history of the color black in Europe.<br><br>In the beginning was black, Michel Pastoureau tells us. The archetypal color of darkness and death, black was associated in the early Christian period with hell and the devil but also with monastic virtue. In the medieval era, black became the habit of courtiers and a hallmark of royal luxury. Black took on new meanings for early modern Europeans as they began to print words and images in black and white, and to absorb Isaac Newton''s announcement that