Dangerous Pursuit of Yellow

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Ochre, Saffron, Gamboge, Indian Yellow, Orpiment, Cadmium. Yellow is thecolour of summer and the colour of money. It's the colour of New York taxis,TNT, sunflowers, cowardice, fire, yellow-stars and the earliest pigments found inPalaeolithic cave-art. Dangerous Pursuit of Yellow explores the contradictoryassociations of yellow and its highly volatile nature. It is a book about nature and art, kitchens and bedrooms, about yellow-fingered munitions-workers inthe Second World War, a tenth-century Chinese poet, Frida Kahlo, Dana Schutz,and about the bright, volatile, fading colours of family memory.