Atlas of Knowledge: Anyone Can Map
Atlas of Knowledge: Anyone Can Map
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2016
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B. Smith
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technical handbooks (Feller, Mayer, Clarke) and dictionaries of symbols (Chevalier, Gheerbrant, Cooper) to theoretical and scientific treatises (Cennini, Alberti, de Piles, Chevreul, Rood, Itten), Pastoureau’s investigation defines the color that embellishes painting, manuscript illumination, sculpture, textiles, costume and heraldic emblems as a social phenomenon. “It is the society that ‘makes’ color,” he claims, “that gives it its definitions and meaning, that constructs its codes and values.” A French professor of Medieval History and Western Symbolism at the Sorbonne’s École pratique des hautes etudes, Pastoureau has published extensively on the cultural significance of color, medieval symbolism and heraldry, with books that include such exquisite titles as L’arbre: histoire naturelle et symbolique de l’arbre, du bois et du fruit au moyen age and The Bear: History of a Fallen King. Closely attuned to etymology, the author cites connotations that derive from terms such as glaukos and chloros, coined in Homer; viridis, in use among the Romans; and silva and silvaticus from the medieval oral tradition and the heraldic sinople. He considers mineralogy, trade networks, dyes and artificial pigments as well as industrial practices involving regulatory guilds, sumptuary laws, medicinal plants and herbicides. He regards green, chemically unstable and subject to fading over time, as an ambivalent color, suggestive of life, growth, nature and hope as well as sickness, demonism and putrefaction. Variously informed by biblical symbolism, liturgical exigency, Arabic medicine, the Protestant Reformation, iconoclasm, courtly romance and Renaissance speculation, empirical studies in the aftermath of the Scientific Revolution and Newton’s experiments in light refraction led to more systematic color theorizations informed by analytic psychology, physiology, physics and later b o o k s