Blue
Subtitle: Cobalt to Cerulean in art and culture
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781452129402
Subjects: Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Blue in art
Other titles: Cobalt to Cerulean in art and culture
Description: "The color blue has enchanted mankind since the beginning of time. From ancient Egyptian mummies to modern American music, the hue resurfaces again and again throughout art and cultural history. This ... gathers over two hundred images from the collection of the Museum ... that reveal how this coolest of colors has spanned the ages. Short essays by myseum curators explore the color's ever-shifting significance, creation, and symbolism"--Publisher's description.
Notes: "From the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston."
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Blue Notes, by Adam Tessier; title: The Significance of Blue in Ancient Egyptian Art / by Denise Doxey; title: Egyptian Blue and Egyptian Faience / by Pam Hatchfield; title: Indigo / by Pamela Parmal; title: The Brilliant Kingfisher / by Yvonne Markowitz; title: Porcelaneous Blue: The Blue-and-White Tradition in Chinese Porcelain / by Nancy Berliner; title: The Rise of Blue in Europe / by Rhona MacBeth; title: A Blue Plate Special: Five Centuries of Blue in European Ceramics, 1500 to Today / by Thomas Michie; title: The Blues of the Japanese Landscape: Hokusai's Prints of Mount Fuji / by Sarah Thompson; title: Cyanotype / by Anne E. Havinga; title: The Blues / by Caroline Cole.