"An impressive, learned, and enjoyable journey through time on the wings of color, Yellow will appeal to any reader curious about the history of ideas and the arts." --Jean-Baptiste Evette, translator and novelist "A rare combination of intelligence and accessibility, scholarship and pleasurable reading, Yellow is filled with interesting facts and anecdotes. It makes an important contribution to a whole range of humanistic disciplines and will also appeal to general readers." --David O'Brien, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Praise for Michel Pastoureau's Blue "Pastoureau's text moves us through one fascinating area of activity after another. The jacket, cover and end-papers of this luscious book are appropriately blue; its double-columned text breathes easily in the space of its pages; it is so well sewn it opens flat at any place; and fascinating, aptly chosen color plates, not confined to the title color, will please even those eyes denied the good luck of being blue." --William H. Gass, Los Angeles Times Book Review "A generous, gorgeous book full of nearly 100 historical and artistic plates, all illustrating the meaning and role of the color blue in Western history. Pastoureau has created something rare.

" -- Chicago Tribune Praise for Michel Pastoureau's Green "Comprehensive and lavishly illustrated." --Natalie Angier, New York Times "Sumptuously illustrated. These are books to look at, but they are also books to read. Individual colors find their being only in relation to each other, and their cultural force depends on the particular instance of their use. They have no separate life or essential meaning. They have been made to mean, and in these volumes that human endeavor has found its historian." --Michael Gorra, New York Review of Books.