Michel Pastoureau (born 17 June 1947) is a French professor of medieval history and an expert in Western symbology.
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- Red: The History of a Color (Princeton 2016), ISBN 978-0-691-17277-4
- Green: The History of a Color (Princeton 2014), ISBN 978-0-691-15936-2
- The Bear: History of a Fallen King (Harvard 2011), ISBN 978-0-674-04782-2
- Black: The History of a Color (Princeton 2008), ISBN 978-0-691-13930-2
- Blue: The History of a Color (Princeton 2001), ISBN 0-691-09050-5
- The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes (Columbia 2001), ISBN 0-231-12366-3
- The Bible and the Saints, with Gaston Duchet-Suchaux (Flammarion 1994), ISBN 2-08-013564-3
Yellow by Michel Pastoureau — the colour of emperors, traitors and star cyclists
This cultural history of the colour yellow is stuffed with golden gobbets, says Michael Prodger
If it is possible to feel sorry for a colour, one should feel sorry for yellow. It has, according to the French medieval historian and symbologist Michel Pastoureau, had a sad fall from grace over the centuries. In antiquity yellow was prized as the colour of the sun, and thus of warmth and light; by the Middle Ages, however, attitudes towards it had turned ambivalent, and from the 19th century onwards it has been largely unloved. A 2005 poll to rank colours by popularity — and there was such a thing — put blue way out ahead in the West at 45-50 per cent, while yellow came in at a sickly 5 per cent.
Pastoureau is gradually working his way along the spectrum, and this…
“(Pastoureau) acknowledges that yellow has been seen as beneficent and maleficent, beautiful and sallow at the same time, which makes any grand overarching theory difficult to impose. But like, for example, a Chinese meal, each information-rich mouthful is tasty and leaves room for just one more” -- Michael Prodger, The Times and The Sunday Times
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