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Dickens, Ruslin. Baudclairc all asked ....ilr ifwas. in this age ofsuprtnw ....eahh and power. that men wanted 10 dress a.~ If going 10 a fuOCr:11. Men in Black Men in Black John Harvey REAKTION BOOKS Published byReaktion BooksLtd II Rathbone Place,LondonWIP IDE, UK Firstpublished 1995, First publishedinpaperback 1997 Copyright©JohnHarvey, 1995 Allrightsreserved. Nopart ofthispublication maybe reproduced,stored inaretrievalsystem,or transmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,recordingorotherwise without the prior permission ofthepublishers. DesignedbyHumphreyStone Jacket designed byRon Costley PhotosetbyWilmaset Ltd, Birkenhead, Wirral Printedinthe UnitedStates ofAmerica British Library Cataloguing inPublication Data: Harvey,John Men inBlack.- (Picturing History Series) I.Title 11.Series 9°9 ISBN0-948462-73-6 (hbk) D-948462-74-4 Thepublishersacknowledgepermission fromFaber and FaberLtd toreproduce quoted matter fromReservoirDogs byQuentinTarantinoasan epigraph. ALSOBYJOHN HARVEY: VictorianNooelists andtheirIllustrators ThePlateShop(novel) Coupd'Etat(novel) TheLegendofCaptainSpace(novel) Contents Introduction: Clothes, Colour and Meaning 9 I Whose Funeral? 23 2 Black in History 4I 3 From Black in Spain to Blackin Shakespeare 7I 4 From Black in Art to Dickens's Black I 15 5 England's Dark House 151 6 Men in Blackwith Women in White 195 7 Black in our Time 225 References 258 Photographic Acknowledgements 276 Index 277 Acknowledgements Iammostsubstantiallyindebted,forcriticism,advice,tips,castigation, to those who very generously consented, at differing stages of its development, to read and comment on mymanuscript: David Armi tage, John Beer, Derek Brewer, Peter Burke, John Burnett, Philip Collins, Don Cupitt, Gerard Evans,John Gage, Graham McMaster, Leonee Ormond, Aileen Ribeiro,Jonathan RileySmith. But I haveI think gained and learned from every conversation I have had with friends and acquaintancesonthe topicsofthisbook.Mygreatest debt is to mywife,Julietta Harvey, for her alert reading and criticism and suggestions. MR PINK: Whycan'twepickout our owncolor? JOE: Itried that once, itdon'twork.Youget four guysfightingoverwho's gonna be Mr Black. QuentinTarantino,ReserooirDogs I EdgarDegas, TheCottonMarket, NewOrleans, 1872, oiloncanvas.Musee des Beaux-Arts, Pau.
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