Ineluctable Modality of the Visible and the Infrared: A Spectral Study of Joyce’s Ulysses Blue | Guardians of Memory (opens in new tab)

June 16th, the day of commemoration of author James Joyce, calls for a certain shade of blue. Not just any blue, but that blue. The iconic cover of Ulysses. This Bloomsday, we follow the color rather than the character and discover it has a story of its own, a hue as intentional and exacting as Joyce himself.