The Colour of Our Memories

What remains of the colours of our childhood? What are our memories of a blue rabbit, a red dress, a yellow bike - and were they really those colours? What colours do we associate with our student years, our first loves, our adult lives? How does colour leave its mark on memory? In an attempt to answer these and other questions, Michel Pastoureau presents us with a journal about colours that covers half a century. Drawing on personal recollections, he retraces the recent history of colours through an exploration of fashion and clothing, everyday objects and practices, emblems and flags, sport, literature, museums and art. This text - playful, poetic, nostalgic - records the life of both the author and his contemporaries. We live in a world increasingly bursting with colour, in which colour remains a focus for memory, a source of delight and, most of all, an invitation to dream.

ISBN:	9780745655727
Publisher:	Polity Press
Imprint:	Polity Press
Published date:	14 Jan 2022
DEWEY:	155.91145
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xiv, 186
Weight:	316g
Height:	153mm
Width:	229mm
Spine width:	19mm

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