Download or read book Green written by Michel Pastoureau and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to today. Examining the evolving place of green in art, clothes, literature, religion, science, and everyday life, Michel Pastoureau traces how culture has profoundly changed the perception and meaning of the color over millennia—and how we misread cultural, social, and art history when we assume that colors have always signified what they do today. Filled with entertaining and enlightening anecdotes, Green shows that the color has been ambivalent: a symbol of life, luck, and hope, but also disorder, greed, poison, and the devil. Chemically unstable, green pigments were long difficult to produce and even harder to fix. Not surprisingly, the color has been associated with all that is changeable and fleeting: childhood, love, and money. Only in the Romantic period did green definitively become the color of nature. Pastoureau also explains why the color was connected with the Roman emperor Nero, how it became the color of Islam, why Goethe believed it was the color of the middle class, why some nineteenth-century scholars speculated that the ancient Greeks couldn't see green, and how the color was denigrated by Kandinsky and the Bauhaus. More broadly, Green demonstrates that the history of the color is, to a large degree, one of dramatic reversal: long absent, ignored, or rejected, green today has become a ubiquitous and soothing presence as the symbol of environmental causes and the mission to save the planet. With its striking design and compelling text, Green will delight anyone who is interested in history, culture, art, fashion, or media.
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Download or read book The Agent Vol 1 written by Mathieu Gabella and published by Ablaze Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-21 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some, magic is a myth. For others, it is a weapon. What if witchcraft really existed? If our beliefs, superstitions, and legends were material? This is what Rhym, a young narcotics lieutenant, must question when she finds herself confronted with the impossible. While staking out a subway deal, a suspect magically kills his informant and drives the entire station into madness with just a handful of weed. Rhym miraculously escapes unscathed. She's unaware, but she is a witch, and that fact arouses the interest of a very particular unit of the French secret services. A group of special agents who, like the criminals they hunt, have mastered the art of sorcery… Welcome to a world where it is better to wear an amulet than a bulletproof vest and where a simple curse by email can destroy you more surely than a bomb. Between thriller, espionage, and fantasy, Mathieu Gabella and DC Comics artist Fernando Dagnino (Suicide Squad, Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Teen Titans, Justice League) present a powerful adventure!
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Download or read book A First French Book written by Charles Alfred Downer and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Etudes Mand written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Camarades written by Gwen Berwick and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 1997 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The orange Pupils' Book concentrates on developing basic language skills with a simple input at a reassuring level. Designed to motivate pupils who have retained little from previous years of studying French, Camarades 3-orange provides excellent preparation for studying Camarades 4 at GCSE/Standard Grade.Camarades 3 orange contains a wealth of differentiated activities, allowing pupils to work at a pace that is right for them.The unique two-strand approach means that whether pupils use the orange or turquoise books, they will explore the same topics at the same time.Full support materials are provided in the corresponding Teacher's Books and Teacher's Resource Files.Assessment sections are built into Camarades 3, providing testing opportunities in each of the individual skill areas.
Download or read book Andre Gide and Curiosity written by Victoria Reid and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive exploration of curiosity in the fiction and life-writing of André Gide (1869-1951) is an important modernist contribution to the field of curiosity in literature and cultural studies more broadly. Curiosity was a credo for Gide. By observing the world and then manifesting in writing these observations, he stimulates the curiosity of readers, conceived as virtual conduits of a curiosity once his own. Using a thematic structure of sexual, scientific and writerly curiosity, this volume identifies processes of curiosity in the life-writing (including the travel-writing) which illuminate processes in the fiction, and vice versa. Theories of fetishism, gender and sexuality are applied to Gide's corpus to illustrate his championing of a masculine curiosity of enlightenment and adventure over a feminised 'curiosité-défaillance' of disobedience and harm, and to explore objects eliciting his incuriosity. Gide's creativity is nourished by his curiosity, as close readings of his work informed by Melanie Klein's psychoanalytic writing on epistemophilia reveal. Curiosity is a rewarding, non-reductionist perspective from which the exceptional variety of Gide's subject matter, style and genre can be more coherently understood. Research draws principally on the six Pléiade volumes of Gide's oeuvre, published 1996-2009.
Download or read book The Realms of Colour Die Welt Der Farben Le Monde Des Couleurs written by Adolf Portmann and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Description of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain written by Yan Zhu and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Renaissance Colour Symbolism written by Roy Osborne and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Renaissance Colour Symbolism brings together texts and translations of the four earliest printed books on the meaning of colours: Le Blason de toutes armes et éscutz [The Blazon of All Arms and Escutcheons] (1495) by Jean Courtois, the Sicily Herald; Le Blason des couleurs en armes, livrées et devises [The Blazon of Colours in Arms, Liveries and Devices] (1527) by Gilles Corrozet; Libellus de coloribus [Booklet on Colours] (1528) by Antonio Telesio (Thylesius); and Del significato de' colori [On the Signification of Colours] (1535) by Fulvio Pellegrino Morato. Parts of three other early books are included, from The Accedens of Armory (1562) by Gerard Legh; Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura, et archittetura [Treatise on the Arts of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture] (1584) by Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo; and A Tracte Containing the Artes of Curious Paintinge, Carvinge and Buildinge (1598) by Richard Haydocke"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book French for the IB MYP 4 5 Capable Proficient Phases 3 4 5 6 written by Catherine Jouffrey and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exam Board: IB Level: MYP Subject: French First Teaching: September 2016 First Exam: June 2017 The only series for MYP 4 and 5 developed in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate (IB) Develop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused approach presented in global contexts. - Develop conceptual understanding with key MYP concepts and related concepts at the heart of each chapter. - Learn by asking questions with a statement of inquiry in each chapter. - Prepare for every aspect of assessment using support and tasks designed by experienced educators. - Understand how to extend your learning through research projects and interdisciplinary opportunities.
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