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From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow around the world, 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 history of yellow around the world. Filled with entertaining and enlightening anecdotes from Europe, East Asia, India, Africa, and South America, Yellow tells the intriguing story of the color's evolving place in art, religion, fashion, literature, science, and everyday life, and reveals how its meaning has changed profoundly over millennia and varied among cultures.In European societies today, yellow is a discreet color, little present in everyday life and rarely carrying great symbolism. This has not always been the case. In antiquity, yellow was almost sacred, a symbol of light, warmth, and prosperity. It became highly ambivalent in medieval Europe: greenish yellow came to