Darker shades : the racial other in early modern art /
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 im...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the French. |
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London :
Reaktion Books,
2019.
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| 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? |
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| Item Description: | 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. |
| Physical Description: | 288 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781789140569 1789140560 |