Darker Shades The Racial Other in Early Modern Art
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Difference exists; otherness is constructed. This book asks how important Western artists, from Giotto to Titian and Caravaggio, and from Bosch to Dürer and Rembrandt, shaped the imaging of non-Western individuals in early modern art. Victor I. Stoichita's nuanced and detailed study examines images of racial otherness during a time of new encounters of the West with different cultures and peoples, such as those with dark skins: Muslims and Jews. Featuring a host of informative illustrations and crossing the disciplines of art history, anthropology, and postcolonial studies, Darker Shades also reconsiders the Western canon's most essential facets: perspective, pictorial narrative, composition, bodily proportion, beauty, color, harmony, and lighting. What room was there for the "Other," Stoichita would have us ask, in such a crystalline, unchanging paradigm?
Book information
ISBN: | 9781789140569 |
Publisher: | Reaktion Books |
Imprint: | Reaktion Books |
Pub date: | 15 Jul 2019 |
DEWEY: | 704.03 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 288 |
Weight: | 692g |
Height: | 224mm |
Width: | 149mm |
Spine width: | 22mm |