Darker shades : the racial other in early modern art / Victor I. Stoichita ; translated with notes by Samuel Trainor.
| Author/creator |
Stoichiță, Victor Ieronim author. |
| Other author/creator | Trainor, Sam, translator. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | London : Reaktion Books, 2019. |
| Description | 288 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Uniform title | L'image de l'autre. English |
| Summary | 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? |
| General note | Originally published in French as 'L'image de l'autre : Noirs, Juifs, Musulmans et Gitans dans l'art occidental des temps modernes' by Hazan, 2014. |
| General note | Translated from the French. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Art. |
| ISBN | 9781789140569 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1789140560 (hardback) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | NX652 .A52 S7613 2019 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |