Istoria culorilor – intersecţii cromofile şi cromofobe
The history of colors – chromophile and chromophobic intersections

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Summary/Abstract: The connotations we can associate with the idea of color are multiple and come from different disciplinary areas. On a strictly biological level, color derives from the possibility of the human eye to perceive one or more frequencies (wavelengths) of light. For the historian, as for the sociologist or anthropologist, the color is, first of all, defined as a fact of society, capable of highlighting matters of a symbolic, ideological, socio-political, and cultural nature. Color is a language in itself, assuming differences according to the age, the investigated cultural space and the social category that uses it for a particular purpose at a given time. The relationship between body and color reveals a whole worldview, as color perception is profoundly influenced by how we decipher our own epidermis. The choice of colors also depends on the way in which the different societies have modulated them through language. Terminologies are often poor and raise problems when the need to translate a text into another language arises. Under these methodological principles, the Faculty of History of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi and the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest organized, on 25 of November 2017, in Iaşi, the interdisciplinary Conference The history of colors – chromophile and chromophobic intersections. The program included 16 papers, of which 14 were read, and in this issue of the “Scientific Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi” (new series) 12 are published.

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