Drawings to colour, what a mystery! Portraits Hachette English

• Is green a beloved colour? The answers to this question are divided. In Europe, about one in six people have green as their favourite colour, but almost as many, both men and women, dislike green.
• Green is an ambivalent, not to say ambiguous colour: a symbol of life, sap, luck and hope on the one hand, and on the other hand, associated with poison, misfortune, the devil and his creatures. Green. History of a colour traces the long social, artistic and symbolic history of green in European societies, from ancient Greece to the present day.
• It underlines the extent to which this colour, which has long been difficult to produce and even more difficult to fix, is not only that of vegetation, but also, and above all, that of destiny.
• Chemically unstable, green has been symbolically associated with all that is transitory: childhood, love, luck, gambling, chance, money. It was not until Romanticism that it became definitively the colour of nature, then of health, hygiene and finally of ecology.
• Today, the West has entrusted it with the impossible mission of saving the planet. The present edition brings the representation of different shades of green to accompany the fascinating reading of the history of this colour. "Pastoureau's engaging cultural history of the colour green addresses the history of art and colour theory... His anecdotes are insightful, the references at times delightfully esoteric, and he brings to this substantial debate a greater contemporary relevance." Publishers Weekly
• Pages: 256
• Language: Spanish
• Year: 2026
• ISBN: 978-8410380066

Publisher: Folioscopio