The Colours of Our Memories - Michel Pastoureau 2012
Acknowledgements
Clothing
In the beginning was yellow
Turbulent stripes
The navy-blue blazer
Subversive trousers
A particular blue
From the garment to the myth
Colour against flesh
Neutral shades in good taste
Mitterand beige
Slimming colours
In the London Underground
Daily Life
My mother’s pharmacy
The sad tale of young Philippe
Sweet dispensers
Choosing a colour: an impossible undertaking?
Greyness
Métro tickets
Red or blue?
Traffic lights
Colour and design: a missed chance?
Eating colours
The Arts and Letters
In a painter’s studio
A painter caught between two volumes
In darkened halls
Ivanhoe
‘Vowels’
The Red and the Black
Chrétien de Troyes at the cinema
Pink pigs and black pigs
When Dalí assigned marks
The colours of a great painter
Historians without colours
The workings of time
On Sports Grounds
Goals and referees
The yellow bike
Bartali and the Italian flag
The Tour de l’Ouest (the Western Cycling Tour)
Colour by default
Easy colours and difficult ones
Pink and orange
Myths and Symbols
Little Red Ridinghood
Long live school Latin!
My discovery of heraldry
The black cat
Green superstitions
The colour of destiny
Furling the colours
A historical object that is alarming
Playing chess
Wittgenstein and heraldic colours
On Tastes and Colours
An American gift
Sunbathing through the years
The ‘bling’ of the 1950s
A brief history of gold
A mysterious shade of green
Do you see red clearly?
No purple for children
The whims of memory
Preferences and opinion polls
Words
Brown and beige
Spelling and grammar
A day at the races
The zero degree of colour
A part that stands for the whole
The Greek blue
The demise of nuances
Speaking of colours without showing them
What is colour?
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