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"Carol Mavor's work is the closest to that of Roland Barthes we are ever likely to have. What I like about it is that it is as 'artistic' as the art which is its subject matter. Carol Mavor not only studies 'blue, ' she bleeds it."--Hayden V. White, University of California, Santa Cruz "Draws upon many artists and writers. . . . This fine, multidisciplinary work explores the color's aesthetic and emotional resonances from a fresh perspective."--Publishers Weekly "[An] evocative new book--a work which wanders at will over a world of blue. Mavor's book could hardly be less constrained by its divided subject. Hers is a stream of consciousness, illustrated by a lavish wash of colour reproductions."--Times Higher Education "Mavor offers an engaging and poetic exploration of the color blue. Like Joseph Cornell assembling one of his boxes, Mavor articulates this metaphorical exploration in a series of short chapters. As expected, the symbolic meanings and psychological effects of the color are introduced. Less expected is the wide range of media, including literature; music; poetry; film; objects; places; and individuals. Theory, notably that of Roland Barthes (whose Mythologies inspired the book's structure), is integrated skillfully." --Choice "Mavor pushes her intuitions and interpretations further than they want ?to go, so that they come back breathless and bruised, with new tales to tell...Blue Mythologies is ?an act of enchantment--of author and reader alike." --Brian Dillon "Modern Painters " "In Blue Mythologies, Carol Mavor provides her own 'reflections' on blue, as her subtitle reads, employing as a guide no discernible chronology but for the admirable compass of her own affective and intellectual sensibilities. . . . Mavor has developed a style that marries the erudition of scholarly writing with the intimacy of a diary. . . . In twenty-two chapters, illustrated throughout by lavish reproductions of everything from fourteenth-century frescoes to twenty-first-century contemporary daguerreotypes, Mavor is at her somersaulting best, moving effortlessly between disciplines and interpretive paradigms. . . . The success of her book is to coax us into having a less complacent attitude to our own contradictory investments, even when it comes to something as apparently innocuous as a color."--Dylan J. Montanari "Los Angeles Review of Books " "Describing a color is the challenge Carol Mavor takes up in Blue Mythologies, and more obliquely in Black and Blue, and she does it beautifully. These two books are the latest blossoms Mavor has cultivated, works that confirm the tenderness of her critical passions. She is a kissing cousin of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Susan Stewart, in her attention to touch and affect, in her sensitivity to her own emotions and sense perceptions in her apprehension of art."--Critical Quarterly "In Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour, Carol Mavor moves between mediums and centuries, examining Paul Gaugin's paintings, Marcel Proust's writings, the films of French director Agnes Varda, and much more. Fifty-nine color plates add lush visuals and the blue ribbon marker is a nice touch."--Boston Globe "Carol Mavor's quirky Blue Mythologies reveals an inherently paradoxical color. . . . An exciting literary treasure hunt that maps out the color blue as a pathway to experience and memory."--Shelf Awareness
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The sea, the sky, the veins of the 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. Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour presents a series of explorations of the colour blue, echoing Roland Barthes' 'Mythologies' essays. The blues of Blue Mythologies include science, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, Slavery, gender, sex, ornithology, the literary past, and contemporary film. The engaging and elegiac readings are at once sociological, literary, historical and visual, taking the reader from the blue of a new-born baby's eyes to the films of Jarman and Kieslowski. Blue as the colour of death, as Vishnu's skin, the colour of optimism, heaven, asphyxiation, depression, the blues, innocence, even blue cheese: in each example Mavor unpicks meaning both above and below the surface of culture and makes us question our relationship with blue. Richly illustrated, Blue Mythologies is a fresh and contemplative navigation of the meanings and mythologies surrounding this most familiar and paradoxical of colours.
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Hardcover. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 207pp. Several colour illustrations. This book is a visual, literary and cultural study of the colour blue. It uncloaks blue as a particularly paradoxical colour - for example, blue is the purity of the Virgin Mary, yet "blue" names a film as obscene. Nº de ref. del artículo: 007711
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Paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. The sea, the sky, the veins of the 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. Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour presents a series of explorations of the colour blue, echoing Roland Barthes' 'Mythologies' essays. The blues of Blue Mythologies include science, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, Slavery, gender, sex, ornithology, the literary past, and contemporary film. The engaging and elegiac readings are at once sociological, literary, historical and visual, taking the reader from the blue of a new-born baby's eyes to the films of Jarman and Kieslowski. Blue as the colour of death, as Vishnu's skin, the colour of optimism, heaven, asphyxiation, depression, the blues, innocence, even blue cheese: in each example Mavor unpicks meaning both above and below the surface of culture and makes us question our relationship with blue. Richly illustrated, Blue Mythologies is a fresh and contemplative navigation of the meanings and mythologies surrounding this most familiar and paradoxical of colours. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Nº de ref. del artículo: GOR008690514
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Hardcover. Condición: Like New. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Here is another blue science fiction mythology. It is not a myth that all newborn irises look blue, whatever final pigmented colour they may end up with. At birth, the infant's unpigmented iris contains many molecular scatterers in a transparent medium: that is why we see a bluish eye when we look into them. Newborn babies' eyes seem blue; not because they are pigmented, but because they scatter blue light to us. Once the pigment arrives, the iris has effectively been painted, and its colour is then determined by the pigment's absorption properties; not unlike the blue crystals in the starred ceiling of Giotto's Arena Chapel, which absorb colour in white light, leaving only blue to be reflected to us. The blue sky in Wyoming absorbs nothing, but scatters the blue of sunlight down to us; not unlike the newborn eyes of babies. In sum: a baby's blue eyes are scattered light: Paul Newman's true blue eyes are absorbed light My stories seck blue (duplicitous) truths, which nevertheless ring true. In the words of my former teacher lun Chiford. If we are co. Nº de ref. del artículo: Batch-FM350-LN-8431
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