It is a book that i return to when im feeling blue. 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. 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. Nov 17, 2012 carol blue, the widow of author christopher hitchens, answered viewer questions submitted via twitter, facebook, and other electronic communications. Liverpool film seminar liverpool john moores university. Richly illustrated, blue mythologies is a fresh and contemplative navigation of the meanings and mythologies surrounding this most familiar and paradoxical of colours.
A connoisseur of colour draws on the history of art, photography, literature. 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. Join author carol mavor to discuss her book blue mythologies. Blue mythologies by carol mavor from reaktion books. Carol jane mavor is an american writer and professor. The final published version version of record is available online via oxford university press at s. Alina khakoo, raqs media collective and the powers and. Pdf document this is the author accepted manuscript aam.
For 2010 2011, mavor was named the northrop frye chair in literary theory at university of toronto. 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. 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. 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. Ebook carol mavor libro electronico descargar pdf serie. Harveys the story of black and carol mavors blue mythologies. 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. 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. Just a year earlier, in 1956, vladmir nabokov had published lolita and b. 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. Fiftynine color plates add lush visuals and the blue ribbon marker is a nice touch. In each example mavor unpicks meaning both above and below the surface of culture. 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.
For this session, delve into the color blue and its varied meanings in art and culture. 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. 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. Mavors most salient observation and driving force is that blue is paradoxical, blue is the purity of the virgin mary, yet blue names a. Reflections on a colour reaktion books, 20 blue mythologies succeeds in directing our eyes anew philip hoare, times higher education. Her reading boyishly was named by turner prizewinner grayson perry in the guardian as his 2008 book of the year. Carol mavor is professor of art history and visual culture at the university of manchester, england. Reflections on a colour by mavor, carol reaktion books 20 208pp isbn 978.
A study of the colour is forthcoming with reaktion books in 20. There are blues and blues, chromoculturally speaking, and carol mavors blue mythologies. Lovers of all things blue will be aware of carol mavors exploration and homage to the colour, blue mythologies. Carol mavor is professor of art history at the university of manchester. Abstractencircling black and blue is peggy phelans poetic response to carol mavors recent book, black and blue. 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. 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. Reflections on a colour reprint by carol mavor isbn. Art and literature through the mouth of the fairy tale, blue mythologies. In her most recent book, blue mythologies, carol mavor provides her own. Mavor has developed a style that marries the erudition of scholarly writing with the intimacy of a diary. Gass, on being blue, carol mavor, blue mythologies, michel pastoureau, green.
Mavor is at her somersaulting best, moving effortlessly between disciplines dylan j. It is a collection of essays taken from les lettres nouvelles, examining the tendency of contemporary social value systems to create modern myths. 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. The history of a color and sabine doran, the culture of yellow. I could not therefore write a new series of mythologies in the form presented here, which belongs to the past. 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. Blue mythologies, reflections on a colour by carol mavor is an ode to blue, a celebration of the favorite color in the world. Currently, she is hard at work on fairy tales and a novel entitled like a lake. Sociology open access articles digital commons network. Aug 05, 20 there are blues and blues, chromoculturally speaking, and carol mavors blue mythologies. Dover uses a variety of media including painting, photography, video, drawing and cyanotype.
Reflections on a colour, carol mavor is published by reaktion books. Explore selected readings in a discussion group led by educators and other experts, followed by a related gallery tour. The blues of blue mythologies include those present in the worlds religions, eggs, science, slavery, gender, sex, art, the literary past, and contemporary film. The photographs of clementina, viscountess hawarden, and blue mythologies. 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. The persisting underexploration of textual colour seems anomalous, too, given major. The blues of blue mythologies include those present in the worlds religions. In an echo of roland barthes essays in mythologies, blue. Carol blue, the widow of author christopher hitchens, answered viewer questions submitted via twitter, facebook, and other electronic communications. 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. Carol mavors engaging and elegiac readings in this beautifully illustrated book are at once sociological, literary, historical and visual, taking the.