Dangerous Pursuit of Yellow Philip Gross from Centre Court to the

from Centre Court to the Great North Run

Chroniclers of colour

What will they become

including himself

At the heart of the book

Dangerous Pursuit of Yellow Philip Gross from Centre Court to theOchre, Saffron, Gamboge, Indian Yellow, Orpiment, Cadmium. Yellow is the colour of summer and the colour of money. Its the colour of New York taxis, TNT, sunflowers, cowardice, fire, yellow stars and the earliest pigments found in Palaeolithic cave art. Dangerous Pursuit of Yellow explores the contradictory associations of yellow and its highly volatile nature. It is a book about nature and art, kitchens and bedrooms, about yellow fingered munitions