Yellow : The History of a Color /

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"Illuminated with a wide variety of images, this book traces the long history of yellow around the world. In antiquity, yellow was considered a sacred color, a symbol of light, warmth, wealth, and prosperity. But in medieval Europe, it became highly ambivalent: greenish yellow came to signify d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pastoureau, Michel, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Psychology.
Gelb
Farbensymbolik
Farbenlehre
Yellow in art.
Yellow.
Symbolism of colors.
Color > Social aspects.
Color > Psychological aspects.
Jaune dans l'art.
Symbolisme des couleurs > Histoire.
Couleur > Aspect social > Histoire.
Couleur > Aspect psychologique > Histoire.
Jaune.
Symbolism of colors > History.
Color > Social aspects > History.
Color > Psychological aspects > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A beneficial color (from earliest times to the fifth century). 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 fifteen centuries). 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 to twenty-first centuries). 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.
  • A beneficial color
  • An ambiguous color
  • An unpopular color.

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