{"product_id":"darker-shades-by-victor-i-stoichita-9781789140569","title":"Darker Shades","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDifference exists; otherness is constructed. This book asks how important Western artists, from Giotto to Titian and Caravaggio, and from Bosch to Durer 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing a host of informative illustrations and crossing the disciplines of art history, anthropology, and postcolonial studies, \u003cem\u003eDarker Shades\u003c\/em\u003e also reconsiders the Western canon's most essential facets: perspective, pictorial narrative, composition, bodily proportion, beauty, colour, harmony, and lighting. What room was there for the 'Other,' Stoichita would have us ask, in such a crystalline, unchanging paradigm?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470379499756,"sku":"9781789140569","price":79.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781789140569-darker-shades.jpg?v=1775217797","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/darker-shades-by-victor-i-stoichita-9781789140569","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}