Devil's Cloth

Name: Devil's Cloth
Brand: Columbia University Press
SKU: 9780231123662
Price: 45.51 EUR
Availability: InStock

A History of Stripes and Striped Fabric

Автор: Michel Pastoureau

Език:

Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: Columbia University Press

Наличност: Външен склад

Изпращаме след 9-15 дни

45.51 € 89.00 лв

Michel Pastoureau's lively study of stripes offers a unique and engaging perspective on the evolutio...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Michel Pastoureau

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2001

страници

160

EAN

9780231123662

ISBN

0231123663

Enbook ID

04557831

Издател

Columbia University Press

Теглоt

236

Размери

147 x 187 x 17

Пълно описание

Michel Pastoureau's lively study of stripes offers a unique and engaging perspective on the evolution of fashion, taste, and visual codes in Western culture. The Devil's Cloth begins with a medieval scandal. When the first Carmelites arrived in France from the Holy Land, the religious order required its members to wear striped habits, prompting turmoil and denunciations in the West that lasted fifty years until the order was forced to accept a quiet, solid color. The medieval eye found any surface in which a background could not be distinguished from a foreground disturbing. Thus, striped clothing was relegated to those on the margins or outside the social order -- jugglers and prostitutes, for example -- and in medieval paintings the devil himself is often depicted wearing stripes. The West has long continued to dress its slaves and servants, its crewmen and convicts in stripes. But in the last two centuries, stripes have also taken on new, positive meanings, connoting freedom, youth, playfulness, and pleasure. Witness the revolutionary stripes on the French and United States flags. In a wide-ranging discussion that touches on zebras, awnings, and pajamas, augmented by illustrative plates, the author shows us how stripes have become chic, and even, in the case of bankers' pin stripes, a symbol of taste and status. However, make the stripes too wide, and you have a gangster's suit -- the devil's cloth indeed!

Може също да ви хареса

Клиенти, които купиха тази книга, купиха също

Най-често търсени

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Продукти

Продукти

Най-често търсени

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Продукти

Продукти

Devil's Cloth

A History of Stripes and Striped Fabric

Информация за книгата

Пълно описание

Може също да ви хареса

Клиенти, които купиха тази книга, купиха също