{"product_id":"blue-mythologies-carol-mavor-9781789140507","title":"Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The blues of \u003ci\u003eBlue Mythologies\u003c\/i\u003e include those present in the world's religions, eggs, science, slavery, gender, sex, art, the literary past, and contemporary film. 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 Ki slowski to the islands of Venice and Aran. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In each example Mavor unpicks meaning both above and below the surface of culture. In an echo of Roland Barthes's essays in \u003ci\u003eMythologies\u003c\/i\u003e, blue is unleashed as our most familiar and most paradoxical color. At once historical, sociological, literary, and visual, \u003ci\u003eBlue Mythologies\u003c\/i\u003e gives us a fresh and contemplative look into the traditions, tales, and connotations of those somethings blue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carol Mavor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1789140501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781789140507\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Reaktion Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Carol Mavor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43979697684735,"sku":"9781789140507","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8adfc56c-234e-4d1e-9c8e-5f781a99d7d0.jpg?v=1683246552","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blue-mythologies-carol-mavor-9781789140507","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}