The Key of Green : Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture
Bruce R. Smith
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Chicago, IL : : University of Chicago Press, , 2010.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (353 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: About Green; 1 Light at 500-510 Nanometers and the Seventeenth-Century Crisis of Consciousness; 2 Green Stuff; 3 Between Black and White; 4 Green Spectacles; 5 Listening for Green; 6 The Curtain between the Theatre and the Globe; Afterword: Coloring Books; Notes; Index of Subjects and Names; Index of Images. - From Shakespeare's "green-eyed monster" to the "green thought in a green shade" in Andrew Marvell's "The Garden," the color green was curiously prominent and resonant in English culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Among other things, green was the most common color of household goods, the recommended wall color against which to view paintings, the hue that was supposed to appear in alchemical processes at the moment base metal turned to gold, and the color most frequently associated with human passions of all sorts. A unique cultural history, The Key of Green c
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| ISBN | 0226763781. - 9780226763781
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