The Culture of Yellow: Or, the Visual Politics of Late Modernity

by Sabine Doran

Book Overview

This is the first book to explore the cultural significance of the color yellow, showing how its psychological and aesthetic value marked and shaped many of the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of late modernity. It contends that yellow functions during this period primarily as a color of stigma and scandal.

Yellow stigmatization has had a long history: it goes back to the Middle Ages when Jews and prostitutes were forced to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441185879
• ISBN13: 9781441185877
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"