{"product_id":"green-the-history-of-a-color-9780691159362","title":"Green: The History of a Color","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eBlue\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlack \u003c\/i\u003epresents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to today. Examining the evolving place of green in art, clothes, literature, religion, science, and everyday life, Michel Pastoureau traces how culture has profoundly changed the perception and meaning of the color over millennia--and how we misread cultural, social, and art history when we assume that colors have always signified what they do today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilled with entertaining and enlightening anecdotes, \u003ci\u003eGreen\u003c\/i\u003e shows that the color has been ambivalent: a symbol of life, luck, and hope, but also disorder, greed, poison, and the devil. Chemically unstable, green pigments were long difficult to produce and even harder to fix. Not surprisingly, the color has been associated with all that is changeable and fleeting: childhood, love, and money. Only in the Romantic period did green definitively become the color of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePastoureau also explains why the color was connected with the Roman emperor Nero, how it became the color of Islam, why Goethe believed it was the color of the middle class, why some nineteenth-century scholars speculated that the ancient Greeks couldn't see green, and how the color was denigrated by Kandinsky and the Bauhaus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore broadly, \u003ci\u003eGreen \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates that the history of the color is, to a large degree, one of dramatic reversal: long absent, ignored, or rejected, green today has become a ubiquitous and soothing presence as the symbol of environmental causes and the mission to save the planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith its striking design and compelling text, \u003ci\u003eGreen\u003c\/i\u003e will delight anyone who is interested in history, culture, art, fashion, or media.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/24\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691159362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.53h x 9.45w x 0.87d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/25\/2014 pg. 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/03\/2014 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2014 pg. 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2015 pg. 792\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Michel Pastoureau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38026182852789,"sku":"9780691159362","price":35.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_901d9769-bcb0-4d52-ab2b-2a4437eb2a56.jpg?v=1609189689","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/green-the-history-of-a-color-9780691159362","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}