The Colours of Our Memories - Couverture rigide

Pastoureau, Michel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0745655718 ISBN 13 : 9780745655710

Editeur : Polity Press, 2012

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"In this lovely memoir, Pastoureau shares some of the colourassociations that signposted his childhood and young adulthood.Embracing the belief that our identities depend on the memories weaccumulate, Pastoureau elegantly shows how memories themselves areshaped by colour."
Times Higher Education

"The ubiquity of colour in modern society blinds us to itscultural significance. In his dazzling new book – a kaleidoscopicmix of historical research and personal memoir – Michel Pastoureaubrilliantly reflects on what colour means, and what colours mean,from the underwear drawer to the TV screen."
Jonathon Keats, author of Virtual Words andForged

"In this book the distinguished medievalist Michel Pastoureauuses his memoirs to frame reflections on a variety of historicaltopics that include the history of jeans, the history of signallingand the language of colour in ancient Greece. The author carrieshis learning lightly and writes with fluency, grace andhumour."
Peter Burke, University of Cambridge

"A wonderful book made up of personal memories, those of ageneration born after the war, of notes taken at the time and ofscholarly explanations. Thanks to Michel Pastoureau and to thegenerosity of his erudition and clarity of his analyses, our lifesuddenly seems much richer."
L Express

"This unusual autobiographical reflection is consistent withMichel Pastoureau s reputation as a leading historian ofcolours.  Here he draws readers into his distinctive way ofthinking about the role that colours play in our memory, showinghow our memories open up new fields of research: one rediscoversthe objects of everyday life and of mass consumption, the cinema,literature and art, not to mention his cherished theme of heraldry.Through these reflections the reader retraces the history ofcolours and their theorization in the West. This book is a delightand it will awaken in readers a new curiosity about the worldaround them."
Etudes: Revue de Culture Contemporaine

"the writing is informative, often amusing, and delightfullyreadable."
Australian Journal of Politics and History

Présentation de l'éditeur :

What remains of the colours of our childhood? What are our memories of a blue rabbit, a red dress, a yellow bike? Were they really those colours? And later on, what colours do we associate with our student years, our first loves, our adult life? How does colour leave its mark on memory? How does it stimulate memory? How does it transform it? Or, to reverse that question, how does colour become the victim of memory′s whims and lapses?

In an attempt to reply to these questions – and to many others – Michel Pastoureau presents us with a journal about colours that covers over half a century (1950–2010). Through personal memories, notes taken on the spot, uninhibited comments, scholarly digressions and the remarks of a professional historian, this book retraces the recent history of colours in France and Europe. Among the fields of observation that are covered or evoked are the vocabulary and data of language, fashion and clothing, everyday objects and practices, emblems and flags, sport, literature, painting, museums and the history of art.

This text – playful, poetic, nostalgic – records the life of both the author and his contemporaries. We live in a world increasingly bursting with colour, in which colour remains a focus for memory, a source of delight and, most of all, an invitation to dream.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0745655718
• ISBN 13: 9780745655710
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240