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- catalog abstract ""The medieval eye found any surface in which a background could not be distinguished from a foreground disturbing. Thus striped clothing was relegated to those on the margins or outside the social order - jugglers and prostitutes, for example - and in medieval paintings the devil himself is often depicted wearing stripes. The West has long continued to dress its slaves and servants, its crew members and convicts in stripes." "But in the last centuries, stripes have also taken on new, positive meanings, connoting freedom, youth, playfulness, and pleasure. Witness the revolutionary stripes on the French and United States flags. In a wide-ranging discussion that touches on zebras, gangsters, awnings, and pajamas, augmented by illustrative plates, the author shows us how stripes have become chic, and even, in the case of bankers' pinstripes, a symbol of taste and status."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Etoffe du Diable. English".
- catalog contributor b12190308.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""The medieval eye found any surface in which a background could not be distinguished from a foreground disturbing. Thus striped clothing was relegated to those on the margins or outside the social order - jugglers and prostitutes, for example - and in medieval paintings the devil himself is often depicted wearing stripes. The West has long continued to dress its slaves and servants, its crew members and convicts in stripes." "But in the last centuries, stripes have also taken on new, positive meanings, connoting freedom, youth, playfulness, and pleasure. Witness the revolutionary stripes on the French and United States flags. In a wide-ranging discussion that touches on zebras, gangsters, awnings, and pajamas, augmented by illustrative plates, the author shows us how stripes have become chic, and even, in the case of bankers' pinstripes, a symbol of taste and status."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [93]-98) and index.".
- catalog description "Order and Disorder of the Stripe -- The Devil and His Striped Clothes (13th-16th Centuries) -- The Carmel Scandal -- Striped Fabric, Bad Fabric -- Saint Joseph's Breeches -- Plain, Striped, Patterned, Spotted -- The Figure and the Background: Heraldry and the Stripe -- From the Horizontal to the Vertical and Back (16th-19th Centuries) -- From the Diabolic to the Domestic -- From the Domestic to the Romantic -- The Revolutionary Stripe -- To Stripe and to Punish -- Stripes for the Present Time (19th-20th Centuries) -- Hygiene of the Stripe -- A World in Navy Blue and White -- Oddball Zebras -- Striped Surface, Dangerous Surface -- From the Trace to the Mark.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 128 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0231123663 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "European perspectives".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog subject "391/.009 21".
- catalog subject "Clothing and dress History.".
- catalog subject "Clothing and dress in art History.".
- catalog subject "Costume History.".
- catalog subject "GT520 .P3713 2001".
- catalog subject "Stripes.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Order and Disorder of the Stripe -- The Devil and His Striped Clothes (13th-16th Centuries) -- The Carmel Scandal -- Striped Fabric, Bad Fabric -- Saint Joseph's Breeches -- Plain, Striped, Patterned, Spotted -- The Figure and the Background: Heraldry and the Stripe -- From the Horizontal to the Vertical and Back (16th-19th Centuries) -- From the Diabolic to the Domestic -- From the Domestic to the Romantic -- The Revolutionary Stripe -- To Stripe and to Punish -- Stripes for the Present Time (19th-20th Centuries) -- Hygiene of the Stripe -- A World in Navy Blue and White -- Oddball Zebras -- Striped Surface, Dangerous Surface -- From the Trace to the Mark.".
- catalog title "Etoffe du Diable. English".
- catalog title "The Devil's cloth : a history of stripes and striped fabric / Michel Pastoureau ; translated by Jody Gladding.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".