Men in black
Mr. 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. Dicken...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Reaktion Books
1995.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Picturing history.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009797983206719 |
| Sumario: | Mr. 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 Cou |
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| Notas: | "First published in paperback 1997."--T.p. verso. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-275) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781280493621 9786613588852 9781780230047 |
