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Blue mythologies : reflections on a colour / by Mavor, Carol,1957-author.(CARDINAL)266545;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index.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 takes 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' 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.
Subjects: Blue.; Symbolism of colors.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Color symbolism : six excerpts from the Eranos yearbook, 1972 / by Portmann, Adolf,1897-1982.(CARDINAL)279234; Eranos Conference(1972 :Ascona, Switzerland);
Includes bibliographies and index.
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; Color; Symbolism of colors; Colors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The stories & secrets of colors : discover how colors brighten our world / by Brooks, Susie,author.(CARDINAL)674228; Kaur, Sirjana,illustrator.;
The secret code of color -- Seeing the light -- A rainbow in the plague -- All mixed up -- A life of their own -- A different view -- What a bee sees -- Nature's kaleidoscope -- Secret shades -- The colors of Earth -- What the world sees -- Color at the movies -- Flying flags -- Red first -- A crimson bug -- Thinking pink -- How the flamingo grew pink -- The orange orange -- The story of saffron -- Sunshine yellow -- Going for gold -- I hear yellow! -- Warm or cold? -- Shades of the stars -- Living green -- Dying for green -- The power of blue -- Why the sky looks blue -- The ultimate blue -- Purple majesty -- The making of mauve -- Violettomania! -- White as light -- The giant white lily -- Black as night -- Ultra black -- Let's glow! "From prehistory to the present day, colors have shaped our world in more ways than you might expect. Discover how colors have started wars, created fortunes, and inspired artists and inventors. Have you ever wondered what colors actually are? The ones you see might look or feel different to other people! So come on a kaleidoscope tour across continents and through time, exploring the incredible stories and secrets of colors."--
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Informational works.; Color; Symbolism of colors; Pigments;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Colors of India / by Littlefield, Holly,1963-author.(DLC)n 95062549 (CARDINAL)392056; Porter, Janice Lee,illustrator.(DLC)n 90726345 (CARDINAL)361558;
Explores the different colors found in India's history, culture, and landscape.
Subjects: Colors; Symbolism of colors; Color.;
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The secret lives of color / by St. Clair, Kassia,author.(CARDINAL)351961;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Color vision: how we see -- Simple arithmetic: on light -- Building the palette: artists and their pigments -- Vintage paint charts: mapping color -- Chromophilia, chromophobia: politics of color -- Colorful language: do words shape the shades we see? -- Glossary of other interesting colors."The unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume. The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book, Kassia St. Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colors and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilization. Across fashion and politics, art and war, the secret lives of color tell the vivid story of our culture. "A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every color has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking."--Simon Garfield, author of Just My Type"--
Subjects: Color; Color; Symbolism of colors;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 15
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Form, color, symbol : the art of Gary E. Smith. by Smith, Gary Ernest.(CARDINAL)325737;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Catalogs.; Smith, Gary Ernest.;
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Green : the history of a color / by Pastoureau, Michel,1947-author.(CARDINAL)163425; Gladding, Jody,1955-translator.(CARDINAL)373526;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-239).An uncertain color (from the beginning to the year 1000) -- A courtly color (11th-14th centuries) -- A dangerous color (14th-16th centuries) -- A secondary color (16th-19th centuries) -- A soothing color (19th-21st centuries).
Subjects: Green.; Color; Color; Symbolism of colors;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Color charts : a history / by Varichon, Anne,author.(CARDINAL)287714; Deimling, Kate,translator.; Éditions du Seuil,associated name.(CARDINAL)887801; Princeton University Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)817932;
Includes bibliographic references."The need to categorize and communicate color has mobilized practitioners and scholars for centuries. Color Charts describes the many different methods and ingenious devices developed since the fifteenth century by doctors, naturalists, dyers, and painters to catalog fragments of colors. With the advent of industrial society, manufacturers and merchants developed some of the most beautiful and varied tools ever designed to present all the available colors. Thanks to them, society has discovered the abundance of color embodied in a plethora of materials: cuts of fabric, leather, paper, and rubber; slats of wood and linoleum; delicate skeins of silk; careful deposits of paint and pastels; fragments of lipstick; and arrangements of flower petals. These samples shape a visual culture and a chromatic vocabulary and instill a deep desire for color. Anne Varichon traces the emergence of modern color charts from a set of processes developed over the centuries in various contexts. She presents illuminating examples that bring this remarkable story to life, from ancient writings revealing attention to precise shade to contemporary designers' color charts, dyers' notebooks, and Werner's famous color nomenclature. Varichon argues that color charts have linked generations of artists, artisans, scientists, industrialists, and merchants, and have played an essential and enduring role in the way societies think about color. Drawing on nearly two hundred documents from public and private collections, almost all of them previously unpublished, this wonderfully illustrated book shows how the color chart, in its many distinct forms and expressions, is a practical tool that has transcended its original purpose to become an educational aid and subject of contemplation worthy of being studied and admired"--
Subjects: Dictionaries.; Color; Color; Symbolism of colors; Color guides; Color; Colors; Color;
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Black : the history of a color / by Pastoureau, Michel,1947-author.(CARDINAL)163425; Gladding, Jody,1955-translator.(CARDINAL)373526;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210).In the beginning was black -- In the devil's palette -- A fashionable color -- The birth of the world in black and white -- All the colors of black.Black, favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists, has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility and sin and holiness. This book discusses the social history of the color black in Europe.Short-listed for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2009.Winner of Independent Publisher Book Awards: Fine Art Bronze Award 2009.
Subjects: Black in art.; Black.; Color; Color; Symbolism of colors;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Blue : the history of a color / by Pastoureau, Michel,1947-author.(CARDINAL)163425; Cruse, Mark,translator.(CARDINAL)467110;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-212) and index.In this fascinating history, the renowned medievalist Michel Pastoureau traces the changing meanings of blue from its rare appearance in prehistoric art to its international ubiquity today.
Subjects: Blue in art.; Blue.; Color; Color; Symbolism of colors;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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