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I have just returned from a wonderful first lecture in a series of seven at the Thyssen Museum. This book has figured prominently in today's talk "The Color of Angels", dedicated mostly to art in the Middle Ages. The first thing I have done at home is order this book.
This preliminary study on the meaning of stripes in western culture answers few of the questions it raises -- it was intended, as the author says, to be 'made up more of impressions and interrogations than of compilations' -- but it leaves the way open for the reader to make her own interrogations o...