The Devil's Cloth - by Michel Pastoureau (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><i>To stripe a surface serves to distinguish it, to point it out, to oppose it or associate it with another surface, and thus to classify it, to keep an eye on it, to verify it, even to censor it.</i></b> <br> Throughout the ages, the stripe has made its mark in mysterious ways. From prisoners' uniforms to tailored suits, a street sign to a set of sheets, Pablo Picasso to Saint Joseph, stripes have always made a bold statement. But the boundary that separates the good stripe from the bad is often blurred. Why, for instance, were stripes associated with the devil during the Middle Ages? How did stripes come to symbolize freedom and unity after the American and French revolutions? When did the stripe become a standard in men's fashion? In the stripe, writes author Michel Pastoureau, there is something that resists enclosure within systems. So before putting on that necktie or waving your country's flag, look to <i>The Devil's Cloth</i> for a colorful history of the stripe in all its variety, controversy, and connotation.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Esquire</i> An oddball and charming little biography of a very devious pattern.<br><br><i>The New York Times Book Review</i> Imaginative...this playful but learned book will doubtless have an influence.<br><br><i>The New York Times</i> Reading about the epic implications of stripes...you feel like a child gleefully taking apart a toy, examining its small components one by one, then putting it back together.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Michel Pastoreau is a leading authority on medieval iconography. He is the director of studies at the Sorbonne's Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes where he has served since 1983 as a professor of the history of Western symbols. He is the author of The Devil's Stripe and Blue: The History of a Color (Princeton University Press.)
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