In the beginning was black : from the beginning to the year 1000
Mythologies of darkness
From darkness to colors
From palette to lexicon
Death and its color
The black bird
Black, white, red
In the devil's palette : tenth to thirteenth centuries
The devil and his images
The devil and his colors
A disturbing bestiary
To dispel the darkness
The monk's quarrel: white versus black
A new color order: the coat of arms
Who was the black knight?
A fashionable color : Fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
The colors of the skin
The Christianization of dark skin
Jesus with the dyer
Dyeing in black
The color's moral code
The luxury of princes
The gray of hope
The birth of the world in black and white : sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
Ink and paper
Color in black and white
Hachures and guillochures
The color war
The Protestant dress code
A very somber century
The return of the devil
New speculations, new classifications
A new order of colors
All the colors of black : eighteenth to twenty-first centuries
The triumph of color
The age of enlightenment
The poetics of melancholy
The age of coal and factories
Regarding images
A modern color
A dangerous color?
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Black : the history of a color by Michel Pastoureau. ISBN 9780691139302. Published by Princeton University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
