Yellow : : The History of a Color / / Michel Pastoureau.

• VerfasserIn: Pastoureau, Michel,
• MitwirkendeR: Gladding, Jody,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 135 color illus.

From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the presentIn this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau—a renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blue, black, green, and red—now traces the visual, socia...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• INTRODUCTION
• A BENEFICIAL COLOR (FROM EARLIEST TIMES TO THE FIFTH CENTURY)
• Introduction
• THE OCHERS OF THE PALEOLITHIC PERIOD
• THE YELLOW METAL
• MYTHOLOGIES OF GOLD
• SUN WORSHIP
• DYEING IN YELLOW
• DRESSING IN YELLOW
• THE CLODIUS AFFAIR
• THE LESSONS OF THE LEXICON
• THE SILENCE OF THE BIBLE AND THE CHURCH FATHERS
• AN AMBIGUOUS COLOR (SIXTH TO FIFTEENTH CENTURIES)
• Introduction
• THE ABSENCE OF YELLOW IN CHRISTIAN WORSHIP
• YELLOW IN HERALDRY
• AN AMBIVALENT SYMBOLISM
• THE PRESTIGE OF BLOND HAIR
• BILE AND URINE
• ENVY, LYING, AND TREACHERY
• THE ROBES OF JAN HUS AND OF JUDAS
• THE ORIGINS OF THE YELLOW STAR?
• AN UNPOPULAR COLOR (FOURTEENTH T O TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES)
• Introduction
• THE YELLOW OF PAINTERS
• THE YELLOW OF SCHOLARS
• YELLOW IN DAILY LIFE
• DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS
• THE EAST COMES INTO FASHION
• DISCRETION, TRANSGRESSION, AND MODERNITY
• ON THE MARGIN OF YELLOW: ORANGE
• ON THE ATHLETIC FIELDS
• YELLOW FOR THE PRESENT DAY
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• CREDITS