Yellow. History of color
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French historian Michel Pastoureau continues his large-scale project on the history of color in Western European societies from Ancient Rome to the present day. The books "Blue, Black, Red and Green" have already been published by UFO Publishing, as well as "Devil's Matter. A History of Stripes and Striped Fabrics." The new book focuses on the color yellow, which has little presence in the everyday life of modern Europe and is scantily represented in official symbolism. However, this was not always the case. People of the past saw it as a sacred color - the color of light, warmth, wealth and prosperity. Greeks and Romans gave it a special place in religious rituals, and the Celts and Germans associated it with wealth and immortality. The lowering of the status of the yellow color occurred in the Middle Ages. On the one hand, it became the color of bitter bile and demonic sulfur - a sign of lies, avarice, sometimes even disease and madness. At the same time there is a good yellow: gold, honey and ripe ears - a sign of power, joy, abundance. These and other semantic metamorphoses of the color yellow are the subject of this book. Michel Pastoureau is a medievalist historian and professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris.
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