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PASTOUREAU
To stripe a surface serves to distinguish it, to point it out, to oppose it or associate it with another surface, and thus to classify it, to keep an eye…
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* Michel Pastoureau is a very accomplished French historian who is well known for his books on colour. * This new book is a more personal reflection on ‘the colour…
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Michel Pastoureau
Black, favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists, has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility and sin and holiness. This book…
First published in French language by Editions du Seuil, Paris, under the title Vert, Histoire d'une couleur. c2013–Page facing title page.
Blue has a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. This work traces the changing meanings of blue from its rare appearances in prehistoric art to its international ubiquity…
Translation of: Rouge: histoire d'une couleur.
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Droits locaux de navigation, par J.-B. Pastoureau-Labesse, … Date de l'edition originale: 1881 Appartient a l'ensemble documentaire: Aquit1
Le present ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages…
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Etude sur la constitution qui convient a la France, par J.-B. Pastoureau-Labesse, … Date de l'edition originale: 1870 Appartient a l'ensemble documentaire: Aquit1
Le present ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique…
Professor Michel Pastoureau
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Le Probleme algerien, par J.-B. Pastoureau-Labesse, … (Mai 1891.) Date de l'edition originale: 1891 Sujet de l'ouvrage: Algerie (1830-1962)France – Colonies
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What do prostitutes, referees, and Renaissance clowns have in common? They all wear stripes, and The Devil’s Cloth tells us why. Pastoureau’s lively study of stripes offers a unique perspective…
A renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blue, black, green, and red now traces the visual, social, and cultural history of yellow…
From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear’s centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends. Michel Pastoureau considers how this once venerated creature was…
From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of the color white in visual culture, from antiquity to today
As a pigment, white is often thought to represent…
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Despite a growing awareness of OA as a medical problem that has yet to reach its maximum impact on society, there is a surprising absence of effective medical treatments beyond…
Comprehensive and up-to-date, the two volumes of Cartilage and Osteoarthritis provide researchers and bench scientists with readily reproducible protocols for new experiments to understand-from the cellular to the animal level-the…
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Art and Nature in the Middle Ages, organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, in cooperation with the Musaee de Cluny in Paris, and…
