A Short History of the Shadow - Couverture souple

Stoichita, Victor I.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1780239882 ISBN 13 : 9781780239880

Editeur : Reaktion Books, 2019

Synopsis

In this investigative tour de force, now available in a new format edition, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges to confront Western artists: the depiction and meanings of shadows. Stoichita’s compelling account of the shadow and Western art draws on texts by Renaissance artist-authors such as Vasari and Cennini, folk and fairy tales, classical myths, works by van Eyck, Poussin, Malevich, De Chirico, Picasso and other masters, German Expressionist cinema, photography and child psychology. It is a wholly original investigation of a subject that for centuries has challenged the very meaning of art as representation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Reaktion Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1780239882
• ISBN 13: 9781780239880
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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• Personne responsable: non disponible