Darker Shades

The Racial Other in Early Modern Art

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Victor I. Stoichita, Victor I Stoichita

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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. This nuanced and detailed study examines images of racial ‘otherness’ during a time of new encounters with different cultures and peoples, such as people of colour, Muslims and Jews. The book also reconsiders the Western canon’s most essential facets: perspective, pictorial narrative, composition, bodily proportion, beauty, colour, harmony and lighting. What room was there for the ‘Other’ in such a crystalline, unchanging paradigm? This book is a fascinating investigation for anyone interested in early modern art history, anthropology and post-colonial studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-07-15
Mått138 x 216 x 22 mm
Vikt692 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagReaktion Books
ISBN9781789140569
ÖversättareTrainor, Samuel

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Victor Stoichita begins his new book – Darker Shades: The Racial Other in Early Modern Art – with the premise that underlies it: "Difference exists, otherness is constructed". It is a powerful, and deceptively simple, opening line. He continues by observing that otherness is dependent on the "self"; in short, that one cannot exist without the other, neither otherness nor the "self". Again, the idea is simple enough, self-evident even. That all is not as straightforward as it might seem, however, is revealed in the statement that follows: "[...] the Self is the Other of the Other, just as the Other is the Other of the Self". The issue is as convoluted as the prose is beautiful. It would seem that a book on the "racial other" needs first to address the "self".