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.
But the history of the shadow is properly the history of light versus dark, for in addition to indicating relief and volume or the times of day, shadows can intimate subtler interior realities - from states of mind to the state of the soul. According to J. C. Lavater in the 18th century, for example, it was the shadow of the face, not the face itself, that was the soul's reflection. More recently Andy Warhol, in his Shadows canvases, and Joseph Beuys have in turn explored the idea of the shadow as the hyper-realized revelation of utter human emptiness and as the self's awesomely powerful Doppelgänger.
Stoichita’s compelling account of the shadow and Western art, which draws on texts by Renaissance artist-authors like Vasari and Cennini, folk tales, fairy tales and classical myths, works by van Eyck, Poussin, Malevich, De Chirico, Picasso and other masters, German Expressionist cinema, photography and child psychology, is a wholly original incursion into a subject that for centuries has challenged the very meaning of art as representation.
1 有用 L 2021-07-06 18:03:10
出发点是如何reconcile Plato and Pliny's diverging stances on shadow which is the central figure in the origin of western theories of philosophical/artistic representation。作者给出的回答就是这是个shadow stage被压制、遗忘并转向mi... 出发点是如何reconcile Plato and Pliny's diverging stances on shadow which is the central figure in the origin of western theories of philosophical/artistic representation。作者给出的回答就是这是个shadow stage被压制、遗忘并转向mirror stage/narcissism/image of the self/frontal portrait的过程。摄影让被压制的阴影重新浮现,再现必须冲破这层黑雾才能显现,"the zenith of mimesis kills the mimesis."在尤伦斯看见封面图才意识到出自沃霍尔 (展开)
0 有用 6+7 2014-06-09 00:38:58
嗯...嗯?
0 有用 YU 2021-12-03 22:43:45
真的认为把影子与物体主体轮廓相混淆是可以接受的吗?影子就是影子,主体轮廓就是主体轮廓啊,主体轮廓经过投射得来影子,如此简单的物理原理,怎么就光明正大被混淆也还是可以接受的呢?以及,轮廓线就等同于轮廓了吗?
0 有用 身不在场 2009-06-01 22:07:20
从墙上爱人阴影的传说开始……