Black. The history of color. 6th edition. Pasturo M.

This monograph is a continuation of the large -scale project of the French historian Michel Pasturo - the stories of color in Western European societies, from ancient Rome to the 18th century, which he began with a study of the relations of Europeans with a blue color. This time, the center of attention is one of the most mysterious and conflicting colors with a very difficult fate - black. The author makes a real detective investigation of adventure, and often black misfortunes in Western European culture. The color of pristine darkness, black death and the Black Knight, in the Middle Ages, he migrated to the monks' robes, soon began to dominate the Protestant wardrobe, turned into a favorite color of lawyers and merchants, in the era of romanticism turned out to be an integral sign of melancholy covers, and later the marker of elegance and Shika and Shiku and Shiku and Shiku and Shiku and Shiku and Shiku and Shiku and Shiku and Shika At the same time an indispensable attribute of the cashier's everyday life.