{"product_id":"black-the-history-of-a-color","title":"Black: The History of a Color","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlack—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 book, the acclaimed author of \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBlue\u003c\/span\u003e now tells the fascinating social history of the color black in Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 black was no color after all. During the romantic period, black was melancholy's friend, while in the twentieth century black (and white) came to dominate art, print, photography, and film, and was finally restored to the status of a true color.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003eMichel Pastoureau\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003ePaperback, 272 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003eISBN 9780691292489\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PRINCETON UNIVERSITY","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68354266169579,"sku":"9780691292489","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/1061\/files\/51wtL04REYL._SL1500_3983b5a2-47bc-4afb-9b27-fcca54642541.jpg?v=1793742301","url":"https:\/\/store.hammer.ucla.edu\/products\/black-the-history-of-a-color","provider":"Hammer Museum Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}