In blue mythologies, carol mavor provides her own reflections on blue, as her subtitle reads, employing as a guide no discernible chronology but for the admirable compass of her own affective and intellectual sensibilities. Harveys the story of black and carol mavors blue mythologies. Performances of sexuality and loss in victorian photographs, becoming. Mavor is at her somersaulting best, moving effortlessly between disciplines dylan j. Mavors most salient observation and driving force is that blue is paradoxical, blue is the purity of the virgin mary, yet blue names a.
It is a book that i return to when im feeling blue. Pdf document this is the author accepted manuscript aam. Abstractencircling black and blue is peggy phelans poetic response to carol mavors recent book, black and blue. Reflections on a colour, carol mavor is published by reaktion books. For this session, delve into the color blue and its varied meanings in art and culture. Carol mavor is professor of art history at the university of manchester. For 2010 2011, mavor was named the northrop frye chair in literary theory at university of toronto. Reflections on a colour reaktion books, 20 blue mythologies succeeds in directing our eyes anew philip hoare, times higher education mavor is at her somersaulting best, moving effortlessly between disciplines dylan j. The photographs of clementina, viscountess hawarden, and blue mythologies. May 15, 20 the sea, the sky, the veins of your hands, the earth when photographed from spaceblue sometimes seems to overwhelm all the other shades of our world in its allencompassing presence. Richly illustrated, blue mythologies is a fresh and contemplative navigation of the meanings and mythologies surrounding this most familiar and paradoxical of colours. Each of mavors blue mythologies is a site of cultural, poetic, and autobiographical practice that empowers the reader, in turn, to attend with curiosity and with care and creativity to colour instances in art, in nature and the natural sciences, in the human face, in landscape, and in the built environment.
A connoisseur of colour draws on the history of art, photography, literature. Carol mavors engaging and elegiac readings in this beautifully illustrated book are at once sociological, literary, historical and visual, taking the. Audacious and genredefying, black and blue is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Dover uses a variety of media including painting, photography, video, drawing and cyanotype. Art and literature through the mouth of the fairy tale, blue mythologies. Blue mythologies by carol mavor from reaktion books. A study of the colour is forthcoming with reaktion books in 20.
Fiftynine color plates add lush visuals and the blue ribbon marker is a nice touch. Mavor has lectured broadly in the us and the uk, including the photographers gallery london, university of cambridge, duke university, the royal college of art and the guggenheim museum. In her most recent book, blue mythologies, carol mavor provides her own. The final published version version of record is available online via oxford university press at s.
Just a year earlier, in 1956, vladmir nabokov had published lolita and b. The blues of blue mythologies include those present in the worlds religions, eggs, science, slavery, gender, sex, art, the literary past, and contemporary film. As a writer who takes creative risks in form literary and experimental and political risks in content sexuality, racial hatred, childloving and the maternal, she has published widely on photography, cinema, colour and childhood. Lovers of all things blue will be aware of carol mavors exploration and homage to the colour, blue mythologies. Carol blue, the widow of author christopher hitchens, answered viewer questions submitted via twitter, facebook, and other electronic communications. Nov 17, 2012 carol blue, the widow of author christopher hitchens, answered viewer questions submitted via twitter, facebook, and other electronic communications. Sociology open access articles digital commons network.
Reflections on a colour, carol mavor, moves between mediums and centuries, examining paul gauguins paintings, marcel prousts writings, the films of french director agnes varda, and much more. Currently, she is completing a series of short essays on the colour blue to be published under the title blue mythologies reaktion, 2011. Gass, on being blue, carol mavor, blue mythologies, michel pastoureau, green. Reflections on a colour by mavor, carol reaktion books 20 208pp isbn 978. Reflections on a colour, carol mavor moves between mediums and centuries, examining paul gaugins paintings, marcel prousts writings, the films of french director agnes varda, and much more. The history of a color and sabine doran, the culture of yellow. Her reading boyishly was named by turner prizewinner grayson perry in the guardian as his 2008 book of the year. Liverpool film seminar liverpool john moores university. The sea, the sky, the veins of your hands, the earth when photographed from spaceblue sometimes seems to overwhelm all the other shades of our world in its allencompassing presence. Ebook carol mavor libro electronico descargar pdf serie.
Reflections on a colour is all about infinite or involuted meanings, the plunge into a blue that rebecca solnit, in her field guide to getting lost, calls the color of longing for the distances you never arrive in. I could not therefore write a new series of mythologies in the form presented here, which belongs to the past. It is a collection of essays taken from les lettres nouvelles, examining the tendency of contemporary social value systems to create modern myths. In an echo of roland barthes essays in mythologies, blue. Reflections on a colour reprint by carol mavor isbn. Join author carol mavor to discuss her book blue mythologies. Currently, she is hard at work on fairy tales and a novel entitled like a lake. Aug 05, 20 there are blues and blues, chromoculturally speaking, and carol mavors blue mythologies. Mavor has developed a style that marries the erudition of scholarly writing with the intimacy of a diary. Roland barthes and marcel proust are inspirations for and subjects of carol mavor s exquisite, imagefilled rumination on efforts to capture fleeting moments and to comprehend the incomprehensi.
The persisting underexploration of textual colour seems anomalous, too, given major. Explore selected readings in a discussion group led by educators and other experts, followed by a related gallery tour. The very title of roland barthess book mythologies, which just came out in a new translation by richard howard and annette lavers, is a misnomer. Fred bidwell, director of transformer station, is also founder and executive director of front a new art triennial coming to cleveland in the summer of 2018, under the artistic direction of michelle grabner and jens hoffman. Carol jane mavor is an american writer and professor. Apr 19, 2012 the very title of roland barthess book mythologies, which just came out in a new translation by richard howard and annette lavers, is a misnomer. Brigitte bardot found herself to be an american sensation for her role in and god created woman, where she childishly ate and made love with the same unceremonious simplicity. There are blues and blues, chromoculturally speaking, and carol mavors blue mythologies. Reflections on a colour reaktion books, 20 blue mythologies succeeds in directing our eyes anew philip hoare, times higher education. Blue mythologies, reflections on a colour by carol mavor is an ode to blue, a celebration of the favorite color in the world. Carol mavors engaging and elegiac readings in this beautifully illustrated book take the reader from the blue of a newborn babys eyes to giottos frescoes at.
The blues of blue mythologies include those present in the worlds religions. Falcon by helen macdonald, orwells nose by john sutherland, owl by desmond morris, landscape and englishness by david matless, blue mythologies by carol mavor and the modern art cookbook by mary ann caws. Blue, in mavors vertiginous essay, is not so much an object of arthistorical analysis as an energy or atmosphere, the very mood in which mavor thinks and writes. In each example mavor unpicks meaning both above and below the surface of culture. Annabel dover was born in liverpool she has a ba hons in fine art from newcastle university 1998, ma in fine art from central saint martins, london 2002, and a pgce in art and design from university of cambridge 2003. Carol mavor is professor of art history and visual culture at the university of manchester, england. Alina khakoo, raqs media collective and the powers and.
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