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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London :
Reaktion,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.