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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 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.



In each example Mavor unpicks meaning both above and below the surface of culture. In an echo of Roland Barthes's essays in Mythologies , blue is unleashed as our most familiar and most paradoxical color. At once historical, sociological, literary, and visual, Blue Mythologies gives us a fresh and contemplative look into the traditions, tales, and connotations of those somethings blue.

• Introduction: Paradoxically Bluep. 9
• Everything Is Bluep. 15
• Blue Is Joyful-Sadp. 19
• Unwrapping Blue Boyp. 43
• One Cat, Four Girls, Three Blue-and-White Pots: Walpole's 'Selima' and Sargent's Daughters of Edward Barley Boitp. 49
• 'A Thing of Blue Beauty is a Guilt for Ever'p. 54
• Milk and Sugar are Bluep. 56
• Timber, Timbre: Hearing Blue Againp. 59
• A Bolt from the Bluep. 65
• Semioclasm Cyanoclasmp. 74
• Like a Stocking: Two Paths of Metaphor and Metonymyp. 77
• Blue Lessons: A Patch of Blue, a Blue Cardigan Buttoned and a Robin's Eggp. 91
• To Blue: Helen Chadwick's Oval Courtp. 95
• 'A Foggy Lullaby'p. 107
• Words Failp. 109
• A Blue Fawn's Eyep. 115
• 'Blue Albertine' and 'Blue Ariane' (Marcel Proust and Chantal Akerman)p. 120
• A Blue Lollipop (Krzysztof Kieslowski)p. 133
• 'O Blue'p. 141
• Venice is a Wet Map: Tadzio is Bluep. 147
• Domestic Blues: Agnès Varda's Le Bonheurp. 157
• Aran is a Blue Place Where it is Hard to Find Anything Missingp. 165
• In Lieu of a Blue Ending: Un-Knitting a Cerulean Jumperp. 175
• Referencesp. 181
• Acknowledgementsp. 201
• Photo Acknowledgementsp. 203
• Indexp. 205