BIBFRAME Work

Title

Black

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Pastoureau, Michel, 1947- (author )

Subject

• Black in art (LCSH)
• Black (LCSH)
• Symbolism of colors--History (LCSH)
• Color--Social aspects--History (LCSH)
• Color--Psychological aspects--History (LCSH)

Language

• eng

Illustrative Content

• illustrations

Classification

• DDC: 155.9/1145 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: BF789.C7 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography

Table of Contents

In the beginning was black : from the beginning to the year 1000 -- Mythologies of darkness -- From darkness to colors -- From palette to lexicon -- Death and its color -- The black bird -- Black, white, red -- In the devil's palette : tenth to thirteenth centuries -- The devil and his images -- The devil and his colors -- A disturbing bestiary -- To dispel the darkness -- The monk's quarrel: white versus black -- A new color order: the coat of arms -- Who was the black knight? -- A fashionable color : Fourteenth to sixteenth centuries -- The colors of the skin -- The Christianization of dark skin -- Jesus with the dyer -- Dyeing in black -- The color's moral code -- The luxury of princes -- The gray of hope -- The birth of the world in black and white : sixteenth to eighteenth centuries -- Ink and paper -- Color in black and white -- Hachures and guillochures -- The color war -- The Protestant dress code -- A very somber century -- The return of the devil -- New speculations, new classifications -- A new order of colors -- All the colors of black : eighteenth to twenty-first centuries -- The triumph of color -- The age of enlightenment -- The poetics of melancholy -- The age of coal and factories -- Regarding images -- A modern color -- A dangerous color?

Authorized Access Point

Pastoureau, Michel, 1947-. Black

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:11:15.401241+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23976966

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: bibframe-2-6-0
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc