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-'''''Air and Dreams''''' ([[1943]]) is one of [[Bachelard's]] four studies on literary [[imagination]].+'''''Air and Dreams''''' ([[1943]]) is one of [[Bachelard]]'s four studies on literary [[imagination]].
The book is mentioned by [[Yves Klein]] in a Sorbonne lecture given in 1959 on his [[blue]] period. The book is mentioned by [[Yves Klein]] in a Sorbonne lecture given in 1959 on his [[blue]] period.
:"I unhappily did not have the pleasure of discovering the writings of Gaston Bachelard till very late, only last year in the month of April 1958. [...] will reply by borrowing yet again from Gaston Bachelard that marvelous passage concerning blue from his book ''[[Air and Dreams]]''. "This is primarily a [[Mallarmean]] document in which the poet, living in 'contented world-weariness amidst oblivious tarns', suffers from the irony of blueness. He perceives an excessively hostile blueness which strives with an indefatigable hand to 'fill the gaping blue holes wickedly made by birds'. [...] and that is the dwelling place of Bachelard's beautiful phrase: 'First there is nothing, next their is depth of nothingness, the a profundity of blue'." :"I unhappily did not have the pleasure of discovering the writings of Gaston Bachelard till very late, only last year in the month of April 1958. [...] will reply by borrowing yet again from Gaston Bachelard that marvelous passage concerning blue from his book ''[[Air and Dreams]]''. "This is primarily a [[Mallarmean]] document in which the poet, living in 'contented world-weariness amidst oblivious tarns', suffers from the irony of blueness. He perceives an excessively hostile blueness which strives with an indefatigable hand to 'fill the gaping blue holes wickedly made by birds'. [...] and that is the dwelling place of Bachelard's beautiful phrase: 'First there is nothing, next their is depth of nothingness, the a profundity of blue'."
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Air and Dreams (1943) is one of Bachelard's four studies on literary imagination.

The book is mentioned by Yves Klein in a Sorbonne lecture given in 1959 on his blue period.

"I unhappily did not have the pleasure of discovering the writings of Gaston Bachelard till very late, only last year in the month of April 1958. [...] will reply by borrowing yet again from Gaston Bachelard that marvelous passage concerning blue from his book Air and Dreams. "This is primarily a Mallarmean document in which the poet, living in 'contented world-weariness amidst oblivious tarns', suffers from the irony of blueness. He perceives an excessively hostile blueness which strives with an indefatigable hand to 'fill the gaping blue holes wickedly made by birds'. [...] and that is the dwelling place of Bachelard's beautiful phrase: 'First there is nothing, next their is depth of nothingness, the a profundity of blue'."




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