Darker Shades: The Racial Other in Early Modern Art
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About this book
Difference exists; otherness is constructed. This book asks how important Western artists from Giotto to Titian and Caravaggio and from Bosch to Drer and Rembrandt shaped the imaging of non-Western individuals in early modern art. Victor I. Stoichitas 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 canons 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?
