Titre :

Darker Shades. The Racial Other in Early Modern Art
by Victor I. Stoichita, translated by Samuel Trainor

Auteur(s) :

Stoichita, Victor [Auteur]
Université de Fribourg = University of Fribourg [UNIFR]
Trainor, Samuel [Traducteur]
Centre d'Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères - ULR 4074 [CECILLE]

Éditeur :

Reaktion Books

Date de publication :

2019-07-15

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Art et histoire de l'art

Résumé en anglais : [en]

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 ...
Lire la suite >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?Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

• Centre d'Études en Civilisations Langues et Lettres Étrangères (CECILLE) - ULR 4074

Source :

Harvested from HAL