L'Etoffe du diable : Une histoire des rayures et des tissus rayés

Publié par Seuil

185 pages

Résumé

"The medieval eye found any surface in which a background could not be distinguished from a foreground disturbing. Thus striped clothing was relegated to those on the margins or outside the social order - jugglers and prostitutes, for example - and in medieval paintings the devil himself is often depicted wearing stripes. The West has long continued to dress its slaves and servants, its crew members and convicts in stripes." But in the last centuries, stripes have also taken on new, positive meanings, connoting freedom, youth, playfulness, and pleasure. Witness the revolutionary stripes on the French and United States flags. In a wide-ranging discussion that touches on zebras, gangsters, awnings, and pajamas, augmented by illustrative plates, the author shows us how stripes have become chic, and even, in the case of bankers' pinstripes, a symbol of taste and status.

Tout l'oeuvre peint de pisanello (broche)

Noir. Histoire d'une couleur

Martin voit la vie en vert

Le roi tué par un cochon : une mort infâme aux origines des emblèmes de la France ?

Rouge - Histoire d'une couleur

L'étoffe Du Diable

Figures romanes

Vert. Histoire d'une couleur

Critiques