by Michel Pastoureau, Dominique Simonnet · POINTS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782757803103
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«Le petit livre des couleurs» is the essay by Michel Pastoureau and Dominique Simonnet on the history and symbolism of colors, in paperback.
The historian and anthropologist Michel Pastoureau talks with Dominique Simonnet about the weight of colors in everyday life, language and the imagination. Each shade carries codes, taboos and prejudices, and its meanings are neither fixed nor universal but change with history and society.
It belongs to the Points histoire collection (no. 377). The original publication is from 2005; this Points edition, in French, is from 2007 and has 121 pages.
A work for fans of cultural history, art, design and popular essays on the perception of colors.
Michel Pastoureau is a French professor of medieval history and an expert in Western symbology.
