Blue Mythologies
Reflections on a Colour
Distributed for Reaktion Books
Introduction: Paradoxically Blue
1 Everything is Blue
2 Blue is Joyful-Sad
3 Unwrapping “Blue Boy”
4 One Cat, Four Girls, Three Blue-and-White Pots: Walpole’s “Selima” and Sargent’s “Daughters of Edward Darley Boit”
5 “A Thing of Blue Beauty is a Guilt for Ever”
6 Milk and Sugar are Blue
7 Timber, Timbre: Hearing Blue Again
8 A Bolt from the Blue
9 Semioclasm Cyanoclasm
10 Like a Stocking: Two Paths of Metaphor and Metonymy
11 Blue Lessons: A Patch of Blue, a Blue Cardigan Buttoned and a Robin’s Egg
12 To Blue: Helen Chadwick’s Oval Court
13 “A Foggy Lullaby”
14 Words Fail
15 A Blue Fawn’s Eye
16 “Blue Albertine” and “Blue Ariane” (Marcel Proust and Chantal Akerman)
17 A Blue Lollipop (Krzystof Kieslowski)
18 “O Blue”
19 Venice is a Wet Map: Tadzio is Blue
20 Domestic Blues: Agnès Varda’s “Le Bonheur”
21 Aran is a Blue Place Where it is Hard to Find Anything Missing
22 In Lieu of a Blue Ending: Un-knitting a Cerulean Jumper
References
Acknowledgements
Photo acknowledgements
Index
History: General History
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