Blue Mythologies
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78023-083-2 (ISBN)
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The sea, the sky, the veins of your hands, the earth itself when photographed from space . . . Blue sometimes seems to overwhelm all the other shades of our world in its all-encompassing presence.
The blues of Blue Mythologies include those present in the world’s religions, a robin’s egg, science, slavery, gender, sex, art, literature and contemporary film. Carol Mavor’s engaging and elegiac readings in this beautifully illustrated book are at once sociological, literary, historical and visual, taking the reader from the blue of a new-born baby’s eyes to Giotto’s frescoes at Padua, and from the films of Derek Jarman and Krzysztof Kieślowski to the islands of Venice and Aran.
In each example Mavor unpicks meaning both above and below the surface of culture. In an echo of Roland Barthes’ essays in Mythologies, blue is unleashed as our most familiar and most paradoxical colour. Blue Mythologies gives us a fresh and contemplative look into the traditions, tales and connotations of those somethings blue.
Carol Mavor is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Manchester. She has published widely on photography, cinema, colour and childhood. Her books include Aurelia: Art and Literature through the Mouth of the Fairy Tale (Reaktion Books, 2017).
1.Everything is blue 2.Blue is joyful-sad 3.Unwrapping Blue Boy 4.One cat, four girls, three blue and white pots: Walpole's 'Selima' and Sargent's Daughters of Edward Darley Boit 5.'A thing of Beauty is a guilt for ever' 6.Milk and sugar are blue 7.Timber, timbre: hearing blue again 8.A bolt from the blue 9.Cyanoclasm 10.Like a stocking: two paths of metaphor and metonymy 11.Blue lessons: a Patch of Blue, a blue cardigan buttoned and a robin's egg 12.To blue: Helen Chadwick's Oval Court 13.'A foggy lullaby' 14.Words fail 15.A blue fawn's eye 16.Blue Albertine and Blue Ariane: (Marcel Proust and Chantal Akerman) 17.A blue lollipop (Krysztof Kieslowski) 18.'O blue' 19.Venice is a wet map 20.Domestic blues: Agnes Varda's Le Bonheur 21.Aran is a blue place where it is hard to find anything missing 22. In Lieu of a Blue Ending: Un-Knitting a Cerulean Jumper
| Zusatzinfo | 59 colour illustrations |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
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| ISBN-10 | 1-78023-083-4 / 1780230834 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78023-083-2 / 9781780230832 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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