Pink The History Of A Color 1st Edition Michel Pastoureau by Michel Pastoureau instant download after payment.

Is pink a color in its own right? There are grounds
for doubting this or at least asking the question.
Contemporary science refuses to grant it that status;
for science, it is neither a color in terms of material
nor light, but simply a shade of red, absent from the
solar spectrum. In 1666, when Isaac Newton succeeded
in breaking down white light into colored rays, he did
not find pink, although in addition to red, yellow, green,
and blue, he found purple and orange. Following his lead,
physics and all the related sciences have continually
refused to see pink as a true color, or even as a half color,
but only as a shade....
I have been working to build an edifice for more than half a century: the history of colors in European societies, from Roman antiquity to the end of the eighteenth century. Although, as
readers will find in the pages that follow and the other
volumes, I range considerably beyond and before those
two   periods, it is within that—already quite ample—slice
of time that the essence of my research lies. Similarly,
I have deliberately limited my research to European
societies because for me the issues of color are first of all
social ones. As a historian, I am not competent to speak
about the whole planet, and not interested in compiling
second or third hand, works by other researchers
on non-European cultures. In order to avoid making
foolish claims, plagiarizing, or recopying the books of
others, I have limited myself to what I know, and what
was the subject of my seminars at the École Practique des
Hautes Études and École des Hautes Études en Sciences
Sociales for four decades, starting in 1983.