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BLUE MYTHOLOGIES. REFLECTIONS ON A COLOUR. (Reaktion Books, 2013) “Blue Mythologies succeeds in directing our eyes anew”. —Philip Hoare, Times Higher Education. “Mavor is at her somersaulting best, moving effortlessly between disciplines”.
15 de may. de 2013 · Carol Mavor’s engaging and elegiac readings in this beautifully illustrated book take the reader from the blue of a newborn baby’s eyes to Giotto’s frescoes at Padua, and from the films of Derek Jarman and Krzysztof Kiéslowski to the islands of Venice and Aran.
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“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.”
5 de dic. de 2019 · Julia Kristeva has said that “colour is not zero meaning: it is excess meaning”. Art historian Carol Mavor’s evocative and eclectic collection of essays demonstrates how true this is.
15 de jul. de 2019 · In Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour, Carol Mavor, moves between mediums and centuries, examining Paul Gauguin’s paintings, Marcel Proust’s writings, the films of French director Agnes Varda, and much more.
7 de nov. de 2013 · An unrepeatable colour, utterly evanescent and extraordinarily eternal, as Mavor writes: “The blue of the sky is preferentially scattered towards our eyes from rays of light passing over our heads and interacting with molecules of atmospheric air; these atoms have not changed since the time Giotto was painting in Padua, when the blue of the sky ...
Mavor’s evocative and insightful prose can sometimes be cryptic: “If blue is the light that got lost, is nothing, then blue is the most pure form of desire.” Curiously,...
