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Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour

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Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour
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The sea, the sky, the veins of your hands, the earth when photographed from spaceâ‚¬"blue sometimes seems to overwhelm all the other shades of our world in its all-encompassing presence.
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The blues of Blue Mythologies include those present in the worldâ‚¬s religions, eggs, science, slavery, gender, sex, art, the literary past, and contemporary film. Carol Mavorâ‚¬s engaging and elegiac readings in this beautifully illustrated book takes the reader from the blue of a newborn babyâ‚¬s eyes to Giottoâ‚¬s frescoes at Padua, and from the films of Derek Jarman and Krzysztof KiÂ©slowski to the islands of Venice and Aran.
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In each example Mavor unpicks meaning both above and below the surface of culture. In an echo of Roland Barthesâ‚¬ essays in Mythologies, blue is unleashed as our most familiar and most paradoxical color. At once historical, sociological, literary, and visual, Blue Mythologies gives us a fresh and contemplative look into the traditions, tales, and connotations of those somethings blue.
Country USA
Brand Reaktion Books
Manufacturer Reaktion Books
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781780230832
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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