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Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 257 mm, Gewicht: 1111 g

Sharpe

Grasping Shadows

The Dark Side of Literature, Painting, Photography, and Film
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-067527-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

The Dark Side of Literature, Painting, Photography, and Film

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 257 mm, Gewicht: 1111 g

ISBN: 978-0-19-067527-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press


Whats in a shadow? Menace, seduction, or salvation? Immaterial but profound, shadows lurk everywhere in literature and the visual arts, signifying everything from the treachery of appearances to the unfathomable power of God. From Plato to Picasso, from Rembrandt to Welles and Warhol, from Lord of the Rings to the latest video game, shadows act as central players in the drama of Western culture.

Yet because they work silently, artistic shadows often slip unnoticed past audiences and critics. Conceived as an accessible introduction to this elusive phenomenon, Grasping Shadows is the first book that offers a general theory of how all shadows function in texts and visual media. Arguing that shadow images take shape within a common cultural field where visual and verbal meanings overlap, William Sharpe ranges widely among classic and modern works, revealing the key motifs that
link apparently disparate works such as those by Fra Angelico and James Joyce, Clementina Hawarden and Kara Walker, Charles Dickens and Kumi Yamashita.

Showing how real-world shadows have shaped the meanings of shadow imagery, Grasping Shadows guides the reader through the techniques used by writers and artists to represent shadows from the Renaissance onward. The last chapter traces how shadows impact the art of the modern city, from Renoir and Zola to film noir and projection systems that capture the shadows of passers-by on streets around the globe. Extending his analysis to contemporary street art, popular songs, billboards, and
shadow-theatre, Sharpe demonstrates a practical way to grasp the dark side that looms all around us.

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William Chapman Sharpe is a Professor of English at Barnard College. His previous books include New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850-1950 (2008) and Unreal Cities: Urban Figuration in Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Whitman, Eliot, and Williams (2008).



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