A Cultural History of Color in the Renaissance (The Cultural Histories Series)

ISBN 10: 1474273343 / ISBN 13: 9781474273343

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Cultural History of Color in the Renaissance (The Cultural Histories Series)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474273343
• ISBN 13: 9781474273343
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A Cultural History of Color in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1650, a time of change, conflict, and transformation. Innovations in color production transformed the material world of the Renaissance, especially in ceramics, cloth, and paint. Collectors across Europe prized colorful objects such as feathers and gemstones as material illustrations of foreign lands. The advances in technology and the increasing global circulation of colors led to new color terms enriching language.

Color shapes an individual's experience of the world and also how society gives particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Color examines how color has been created, traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5000 years. The themes covered in each volume are color philosophy and science; color technology and trade; power and identity; religion and ritual; body and clothing; language and psychology; literature and the performing arts; art; architecture and interiors; and artefacts.

Amy Buono is Assistant Professor at the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Chapman University , USA. Sven Dupré is Professor of History of Art, Science and Technology at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Volume 3 in the Cultural History of Color set.
General Editors: Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten Wolf

About the Authors

Sven Dupré is Professor of History of Art, Science and Technology at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Amy Buono is Assistant Professor at the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social
Sciences at Chapman University, USA.

Carole P. Biggam is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English Language and Linguistics at
the University of Glasgow, U.K.

Kirsten Wolf is Professor of Old Norse and Scandinavian Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.