Blue mythologies : reflections on a colour /

The sea, the sky, the veins of your hands, the earth 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, eggs, science, slavery, gender...

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Main Author: Mavor, Carol, 1957- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Reaktion, 2013.
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505 0 |a Paradoxically blue -- Everything is blue -- Blue is joyful-sad -- Unwrapping Blue Boy -- One cat, four girls, three blue-and-white pots: Walpole's 'Selima' and Sargent's Daughters of Edward Barley Boit -- 'A thing of blue beauty is a guilt for ever' -- Milk and sugar are blue -- Timber, timbre: hearing blue again -- A bolt from the blue -- Semioclasm cyanoclasm -- Like a stocking: two paths of metaphor and metonymy -- Blue lessons: A Patch of Blue, a blue cardigan buttoned and a robin's egg -- To blue: Helen Chadwick's Oval Court -- 'A foggy lullaby' -- Words fail -- A blue fawn's eye -- 'Blue Albertine' and 'Blue Ariane' (Marcel Proust and Chantal Akerman) -- A blue lollipop (Krzysztof Kieślowski) -- 'O blue' -- Venice is a wet map: Tadzio is blue -- Domestic blues: Agnes Varda's Le Bonheur -- Aran is a blue place where it is hard to find anything missing -- In lieu of a blue ending: un-knitting a cerulean jumper. 
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