Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour

by Carol Mavor

Book Overview

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, sex, art, the literary past, and contemporary film. Carol Mavor's engaging and elegiac readings in this beautifully illustrated book take the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780230834
• ISBN13: 9781780230832
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"