Yellow. The History of Color
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Yellow. The History of Color
9.99 €
French historian Michel Pastoureau continues his large-scale project dedicated to the history of color in Western European societies from Ancient Rome to the present day. NLO Publishing House has previously published the books "Blue," "Black," "Red," and "Green," as well as "Devil's Matter: A History of Stripes and Striped Fabrics."
The new book is dedicated to the color yellow, which is little present in everyday life in modern Europe and is poorly represented in official symbols. However, this was not always the case. People of the past viewed it as a sacred color—the color of light, warmth, wealth, and prosperity. The Greeks and Romans gave it a special place in religious rites, while the Celts and Germans associated it with wealth and immortality.
Yellow's status declined in the Middle Ages. On the one hand, it became the color of bitter bile and demonic sulfur—a sign of deceit, avarice, and sometimes even illness and madness. At the same time, yellow also has its positive qualities: gold, honey, and ripe ears of grain—a sign of power, joy, and abundance. This book explores these and other semantic metamorphoses of yellow. Michel Pastoureau is a medieval historian and professor at the École Practique des Hautes Études in Paris.
The new book is dedicated to the color yellow, which is little present in everyday life in modern Europe and is poorly represented in official symbols. However, this was not always the case. People of the past viewed it as a sacred color—the color of light, warmth, wealth, and prosperity. The Greeks and Romans gave it a special place in religious rites, while the Celts and Germans associated it with wealth and immortality.
Yellow's status declined in the Middle Ages. On the one hand, it became the color of bitter bile and demonic sulfur—a sign of deceit, avarice, and sometimes even illness and madness. At the same time, yellow also has its positive qualities: gold, honey, and ripe ears of grain—a sign of power, joy, and abundance. This book explores these and other semantic metamorphoses of yellow. Michel Pastoureau is a medieval historian and professor at the École Practique des Hautes Études in Paris.
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