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||11 of 17 people found the following review helpful.| Author has good intentions but wants too much to be an art critic|By Jason Gray|The idea of a book that discusses the shadow in art and philosophy is a great foundation for a book, but the author fails to straddle that line well. If you are researching shadows in art, this book does cover many great examples and would be a nice starting point. However, the author only express|From Library Journal|In what could be called a meticulous dissection of Robert Louis Stevenson's "I Have a Little Shadow," Stoichita (history of art, Univ. of Fribourg, Switzerland) examines the artistic and intellectual concepts of the "dark spot" and of their

In this investigative tour de force, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges to beset Western artists – the depiction and meanings of shadows. The representation of shadow, and especially of cast shadow, is as old as art itself, for according to classical writers art was born when the outline of a human shadow thrown onto a wall was first traced out in order to capture it in the form of a silhouette.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.A Short History of the Shadow (Essays in Art and Culture)   |  Victor I. Stoichita. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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