Yellow. color history

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Yellow. color history

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French historian Michel Pastouro continues his large-scale project on the history of color in Western European societies from Ancient Rome to the present day. The UFO publishing house has already published the books Blue, Black, Red and Green, as well as Devil's Matter. The history of stripes and striped fabrics. The new book is dedicated to the yellow color, which is rarely present in the everyday life of modern Europe and is poorly represented in official symbols. However, this was not always the case. People of the past saw in it 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. The decline in the status of yellow occurred in the Middle Ages. On the one hand, it became the color of bitter bile and demonic sulfur - a sign of lies, stinginess, sometimes even illness and madness. At the same time, there is also a good yellow: gold, honey and ripe ears of corn - a sign of power, joy, abundance. The book is devoted to these and other semantic metamorphoses of yellow. Michel Pastouro is a medieval historian and professor at the School of Advanced Studies in Paris.

Barcode: 9785444817483 SKU: 70151224 Category:
Publication language: Russian

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