Short History of the Shadow
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264 pages
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6 x 9
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© 1997, 1999
Stoichita's compelling account untangles the history of one of the most enduring challenges to beset Western art - the depiction and meanings of shadows.
"discriminating, inspired interrogation ... dazzling analysis"—Marina Warner, Tate Magazine
"Ambitious and a pleasure to read ... a thoroughly worthwhile book."—Times Higher Education Supplement
"discriminating, inspired interrogation ... dazzling analysis"—Marina Warner, Tate Magazine
"Ambitious and a pleasure to read ... a thoroughly worthwhile book."—Times Higher Education Supplement
"[This book] exemplified the extraordinary imaginative range of [Stoichita's] erudition; starting with Plato's myth of the shadows of the cave and following the thread through painting and literature to film, Lacan, and more, he threw entirely new light . . . on the subject of shadows in art and thought, in a brilliant series of insights."
Contents
Introduction
1. The Shadow Stage
2. The Shadow of the Flesh
3. A Shadow on the Painting
4. Around 'The Uncanny'
5. Man and his Doubles
6. Of Shadow and its Reproducibility during the Photographic Era
7. In the Shadow of the Eternal Return
References
List of Illustrations
1. The Shadow Stage
2. The Shadow of the Flesh
3. A Shadow on the Painting
4. Around 'The Uncanny'
5. Man and his Doubles
6. Of Shadow and its Reproducibility during the Photographic Era
7. In the Shadow of the Eternal Return
References
List of Illustrations
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