Publisher's Synopsis
Contending that color is a matter of both sensation and emotion, Bruce R. Smith examines Renaissance material culture-including tapestries, clothing, and stonework, among others-as well as music, theater, philosophy, and nature through the lens of sense perception and aesthetic pleasure. At the same time, Smith offers a highly sophisticated meditation on the nature of consciousness, perception, and emotion that will resonate with students and scholars of the early modern period and beyond. Like the key to a map, The Key of Green provides a guide for looking, listening, reading, and thinking that restores the aesthetic considerations to criticism that have been missing for too long.