Shadows and enlightenment

Author

Baxandall, Michael

Document type

Livre

Language

English

Source

ill. (some col.); diagrams; bibliogr.; index ; xii, 192 p., [16] p. of pl. ; 1995

ISBN

0-300-05979-5

Publisher

Yale University Press, New Haven, CT (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Study of shadows and visual experience, focusing on the 18th and late 20th cs. Discusses the physical constitution of shadows, and distinguishes the physical types; sketches the 18th c. empiricist/nativist issue of the role of shadow in the perception of shape; examines results of late 20th c. research on shadow perception; deals in detail with observations on shadows by mid-18th c. French artists and scientists whose approach is here characterized as Rococo Empiricism; and concludes by setting these three bodies of thought in relation to each other, with regard to the status of shadows in 18th c. French painting, e.g. Cochin, Oudry, Largillière and especially Chardin's Young Draughtsman (Stockholm, Nationalmuseum); includes an appendix on Leonardo's shadow system.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800
• Shadow
• Painting
• Perception
• Science
• 1700-2000
• Rococo
• Empiricism
• France
• Young Student Drawing
• Nationalmuseum||Stockholm (SWE)
• Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
• Writings
• Cochin, Charles-Nicolas II, 1715-1790
• Oudry, Jean-Baptiste, 1686-1755
• Largillière, Nicolas de, 1656-1746
• Representation

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800
• Ombre
• Peinture
• Perception
• Sciences
• 1700-2000
• Rococo
• Empirisme
• France
• Jeune écolier qui dessine
• Nationalmuseum||Stockholm (SWE)
• Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
• Ecrits
• Cochin, Charles-Nicolas II, 1715-1790
• Oudry, Jean-Baptiste, 1686-1755
• Largillière, Nicolas de, 1656-1746
• Représentation

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19960101-00281441

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