Red. History of a color.
Points| N° d'inventaire | 21902 |
| Format | 10.8 x 17.8 |
| Détails | 244 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782757887080 |
In the West, red is the first color that man mastered: thus, for a long time it remained the color "par excellence", the richest from a material, social, artistic, dreamlike and symbolic point of view. Admired by the Greeks and Romans in Antiquity, red took on a strong religious dimension in the Middle Ages. But it is also, in the secular world, the color of love, glory and beauty, as well as that of pride, violence and lust. In the 16th century, Protestant morals went to war against red, an indecent and immoral color, linked to the vanities of the world. From then on, everywhere in Europe, red was in decline. However, from the French Revolution until today, red became political: it is the color of progressive or subversive forces.
In the West, red is the first color that man mastered: thus, for a long time it remained the color "par excellence", the richest from a material, social, artistic, dreamlike and symbolic point of view. Admired by the Greeks and Romans in Antiquity, red took on a strong religious dimension in the Middle Ages. But it is also, in the secular world, the color of love, glory and beauty, as well as that of pride, violence and lust. In the 16th century, Protestant morals went to war against red, an indecent and immoral color, linked to the vanities of the world. From then on, everywhere in Europe, red was in decline. However, from the French Revolution until today, red became political: it is the color of progressive or subversive forces.