{"product_id":"blue-mythologies-reflections-on-a-colour-9781789140507","title":"Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 all-encompassing presence.  The blues of Blue Mythologies include those present in the worlds religions  eggs  science  slavery  gender  sex  art  the literary past  and contemporary film. 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 Padua  and from the films of Derek Jarman and Krzysztof Kislowski 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 Barthess 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67909372117045,"sku":"ByrdShop_1789140501","price":100.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781789140507.jpg?v=1793907772","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/blue-mythologies-reflections-on-a-colour-9781789140507","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}