A Short History of the Shadow by Victor I Stoichita
An investigative tour de force. It untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges to beset Western artists - the depiction and meanings of shadows.
Victor IStoichita is an art historian with a tremendous range, and has brewed together optics and metaphysics, phantasmagoria and propaganda, Plato and Warhol to conjure meaning out of shadows in his engagingly original study. -- Marina Warner discriminating, inspired interrogation ... dazzling analysis' - Tate Magazine 'Ambitious and a pleasure to read ... a thoroughly worthwhile book. Times Higher Education Supplement The author chronicles the changing connotations that shadow have had in Western history ... He shows how shadows are deftly used, among other purposes, to suggest the ambiguity of the human psyche. -- Lee Adair Lawrence Washington Times
Victor I. Stoichita is Professor of Modern Art History at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is the author of Visionary Experience in the Golden Age of Spanish Art (1997) and A Short History of the Shadow (1997, 2019), and co-author with Anna-Maria Coderch of Goya: The Last Carnival (1999), all published by Reaktion Books.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781861890009 |
| ISBN 10 | 1861890001 |
| Title | A Short History of the Shadow |
| Author | Victor I Stoichita |
| Series | Essays In Art And Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Reaktion Books |
| Year published | 1997-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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