GREEN

Pastoureau explains why the color was connected with the Roman emperor Nero, how it became the color of Islam, why Goethe believed i t 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. In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history o f the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to today. Examinin...[Llegir més]