What remains of the colours of our childhood? What are our memories
of a blue rabbit, a red dress, a yellow bike? Were they really
those colours? And later on, what colours do we associate with our
student years, our first loves, our adult life? How does colour
leave its mark on memory? How does it stimulate memory? How does it
transform it? Or, to reverse that question, how does colour become
the victim of memory's whims and lapses?
In an attempt to reply to these questions - and to many others -
Michel Pastoureau presents us with a journal about colours that
covers over half a century (1950-2010). Through personal memories,
notes taken on the spot, uninhibited comments, scholarly
digressions and the remarks of a professional historian, this book
retraces the recent history of colours in France and Europe. Among
the fields of observation that are covered or evoked are the
vocabulary and data of language, fashion and clothing, everyday
objects and practices, emblems and flags, sport, literature,
painting, museums and the history of 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.
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