Light blue desire : a manual for the color blue

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Richmond
Rare Books and Special Collections
Boatwright Library
University of Richmond
28 Westhampton Way
Richmond, VA 23173
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Lynda Kachurek
Phone: (804) 289-8458
Fax: (804) 287-1840

Summary

Extent:
1 Volumes
Creator:
Duzant, Magali, Schlenker, Elana, and Conveyor Arts
Abstract:
"Light Blue Desire: A Manual For the Color Blue is an artist book mapping the amorphous definitions and uses of blue across languages. Gathering idioms from around the world the manual acts as a compendium of contradictions and concepts around a color that is high and low, peaceful and pornographic, melancholic and manipulative, and consistently voted the world's favorite color. How and why does blue seep into our speech, color our thoughts, lap into language? In attempting to define a color, a concept built out of perception, we begin to let slip our interior selves"--Author's Web site, viewed January 3, 2019.
Language:
English

Background

Acquisition information:
Gift of Westhampton College Class of 1943.
Physical facet:
69 pages : includes illustrations
Dimensions:
21 cm
Material specific details:
Title from cover. Other title information, statement of responsibility, and edition statement from colophon. Rare Book Room copy includes author's autograph on inside front cover. "Designed by Elana Schlenker, copy-edited by Elissa Rabellino, printed and bound at Conveyor Studio"--Colophon.