03203nam 2200745 a 450 991077893060332120230421050747.01-280-49362-397866135888521-78023-004-4(CKB)2550000000084057(EBL)850998(OCoLC)775302645(SSID)ssj0000614420(PQKBManifestationID)11348061(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000614420(PQKBWorkID)10604463(PQKB)11719465(MiAaPQ)EBC850998(Au-PeEL)EBL850998(CaPaEBR)ebr10538336(CaONFJC)MIL358885(EXLCZ)99255000000008405719951031d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMen in black[electronic resource] /John HarveyLondon Reaktion Books19951 online resource (282 p.)Picturing history"First published in paperback 1997."--T.p. verso.0-948462-74-4 0-948462-73-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-275) and index.Men in Black Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Clothes, Colour and Meaning; 1. Whose Funeral?; 2. Black in History; 3. From Black in Spain to Black in Shakespeare; 4. From Black in Art to Dickens's Black; 5. England's Dark House; 6. Men in Black with Women in White; 7. Black in our Time; References; Photographic Acknowledgements; IndexMr. Pink:""Why can't we pick out our own color?""Joe:""I tried that once, it don't work. You get four guys fighting over who's gonna be Mr. Black.""-Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir DogsMen's clothes went black in the nineteenth century. Dickens, Ruskin and Baudelaire all asked why it was, in an age of supreme wealth and power, that men wanted to dress as if going to a funeral. The answer is in this history of the color black. Over the last 1000 years there have been successive expansions in the wearing of black-from the Church to the Court, from the CouPicturing history.English literatureHistory and criticismClothing and dress in literatureBlack in literatureMen in literatureMan-woman relationships in literatureSymbolism of colors in literatureClothing and dressPsychologyCostumeGreat BritainHistoryEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Clothing and dress in literature.Black in literature.Men in literature.Man-woman relationships in literature.Symbolism of colors in literature.Clothing and dressPsychology.CostumeHistory.809/.93355Harvey J. R(John Robert)1206577MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778930603321Men in black3808371UNINA