Darker Shades: The Racial Other in Early Modern Art

By Victor I. Stoichita and Victor Ieronim Stoichiță

Difference exists; otherness is constructed. This book asks how important Western artists, from Giotto to Titian and Caravaggio, and from Bosch to D rer 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?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789140560
• ISBN13: 9781789140569
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.6"