Blue : the history of a color

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Blue : the history of a color

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Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

Collection

Auckland Museum Collections

Description

"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 how the ever-changing role of blue in so...

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Image

Date created

2018?

Creator

Mark Cruse / Michel Pastoureau

URL

https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/collections/record/1134827

Locations

Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Related subjects

Colour--Psychological aspects--History / Colour--Social aspects--History / Symbolism of colours--History / Blue in art / Blue / Colour--Psychological aspects

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