Culture of yellow: the visual politics of late modernity /

1: Van Gogh's YellowVan Gogh: From Yellow Books to the Yellow HouseThe Yellow Christ: Van Gogh and GauguinAfter the Burning: Francis Bacon and van GoghReading Bacon and van Gogh with Friederike MayroeckerThe Afterlife of Van Gogh: Antonin Artaud, Alain Resnais, and Akira KurosawaChapter 2: The Scandal of Yellow Books: From the Yellow Nineties to ModernismThe Color of the Hour: Beardsley's Yellow BookScandal: The Arrest of Oscar WildeSalome's Yellow VeilsWilde's "Symphony in Yellow"Wilde and the Dispersion of Scandal in Joyce's Ulysses Stephen's "yellow stick" and Bloom's "yellow habit"Chapter 3: Yellow Passions The Yellow of Contempt: Baudelaire, Tristan Corbiere, Frantisek KupkaThe Yellow of Disgust: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"Camera Lucida: Gilman and Albrecht Durer"A film of yellow light": Virginia Woolf's "A Mark on the Wall"Chapter 4: "The little patch of yellow wall": Proust"I Love Yellow": Balzac's Eugenie GrandetProust and Vermeer's View of DelftThe Yellow Patch: Mieke Bal and Georges Didi-Huberman Proust and Vermeer's The Goldweigher The Death of Bergotte and the Resurrection of the Author Proust's Two (Open) Secrets Albertine and the Yellow ButterflyChapter 5: The "Yellow Peril" and the Visual Politics of RaceStaging the "Yellow Peril": Richard Wagner and Wilhelm II Sax Rohmer's Fu ManchuJack London's "An Unparalleled Invasion""Yellow children": Soloviev's Pan MongolismA Yellow Russia: Bely's Petersburg The Yellow Rhapsody: Kandinsky and Eisenstein"I am a yellow stinking flower": Hans Henry Jahnn's Perugia"Follow the yellow brick road!": The Wizard of OZDeparting in Yellow: Josef Albers and Helmut FederleChapter 6: Yellow Stars and the Visual Politics of GenocideThe Stars of Rainer Maria RilkePaul Celan's "Yellow Flood"Rilke's "new stars" and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow Mendel Grossman's Photographs of the Lodz GhettoJiri Weil's Life with a StarResistance and the Yellow Star: Jacob the Liar Liev Schreiver's Everything is IlluminatedExploding the Star: Felix Nussbaum, Daniel Libeskind, W. G. Sebald, Frank StellaConclusionIndex