Grasping Shadows offers the most thorough examination of the cultural uses of shadows. Exploring a myriad of major literary and artistic evocations of shadows, Grasping Shadows puts forth a unifying theory for how shadows function and how they transformed our relationship to darkness and light.
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Grasping Shadows offers the most thorough examination of the cultural uses of shadows. Exploring a myriad of major literary and artistic evocations of shadows, Grasping Shadows puts forth a unifying theory for how shadows function and how they transformed our relationship to darkness and light.
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Add this copy of Grasping Shadows: the Dark Side of Literature, Painting to cart. $64.50, like new condition, Sold by Old Book Shop of Bordentown rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bordentown, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 2017 by Oxford University Press.
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Fine in fine jacket. Fine, fresh, unused copy in equally fine dust jacket. First printing. Hardcover. xvii+ 420 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs and reproductions. A fascinating work on the use and function of shadow in the realms of literature and the visual arts. Immaterial but profound, working silently and often slipping unnoticed past audiences and critics, shadows lurk everywhere in this areas, signifying everything from the treachery of appearances to the unfathomable power of God. Showing how real-world shadows have shaped the meanings of shadow imagry, the book guides the reader through the techniques used by writers and artists to represent shadows from the Renaissance onward.
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