Blue : color & concept : on view at Beinecke Library, January 21-April 19, 2014.

[New Haven, Connecticut] : [Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library], [2014]

1 folded sheet ([14] panels) : color illustrations ; 23 cm

BEIN 2015 175: Accompanied by 2 small metal buttons or pins issued in conjunction with the exhibition, each about 29 mm in diameter.

A folded sheet with 14 panels on each side when unfolded. The "outside" contains 1 panel of introductory text by curator Nancy Kuhl and a checklist of items in the exhibition on the remaining 13 panels. The "inside" contains a title panel, a panel listing events, and 12 panels of illustration. 46 x 71 cm, folded to 23 x 10 cm.

Brochure for an exhibition exploring how the color and concept "blue" tracks across many aspects of the Beinecke Library's collections in 19th- and 20th-century arts and letters, from Langston Hughes's blue enamel-decorated cigarette case to works in poetry and human psychology to film and popular music.

English

February 06, 2015