Black: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau

Black: The History of a Color

Histoire d'une couleur #2

Michel Pastoureau

210 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
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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 b...

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