Shadows The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art 陰影：西方藝術中對投影的描繪；Shadows and Enlightenment By Michael Baxandall

Shadows

The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art

E. H. Gombrich; With a preface by Neil MacGregor and an introduction by Nicholas Penny

December 16, 2014
96 pages, 8 x 9
60 col illus.
ISBN: 9780300210040
Cloth

Description

In this intriguing book, E.H. Gombrich, who was one of the world’s foremost art historians, traces how cast shadows have been depicted in Western art through the centuries. Gombrich discusses the way shadows were represented—or ignored—by artists from the Renaissance to the 17th century and then describes how Romantic, Impressionist, and Surrealist artists exploited the device of the cast shadow to enhance the illusion of realism or drama in their representations. First published to accompany an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, in 1995, it is reissued here with additional color illustrations and a new introduction by esteemed scholar Nicholas Penny. It is also now available as an enhanced eBook, with zoomable images and accompanying film footage. 

E.H. Gombrich (1909–2001) was director of the Warburg Institute, London, from 1959 until his retirement in 1976. Author of the international bestsellers The Story of Art and A Little History of the World, he received a knighthood in 1972 and the Order of Merit in 1988. Nicholas Penny is director of the National Gallery, London.

陰影：西方藝術中對投影的描繪

• 作者： （英）E.H.貢布里希
  译者: 王立秋
  出版社：重慶大學出版社
• 出版日期：2016/11/01
• 語言：簡體中文

內容簡介

1995年，為了向着名藝術史家、《藝術的故事》和《世界小史》作者E.H.貢布里希爵士致敬，英國國家美術館特別邀請他來策划一次展覽。貢布里希將此次展覽的主題鎖定在藝術史中非常有趣的一個議題：陰影。而且，在此次展覽中，他尤其關注陰影中的一個類別：投影。

本書即是貢布里希親自為此次展覽所寫的導覽。在其一貫具有親和力又不失專業水准的精彩文筆引領下，我們可漫步踏入西方藝術史中「投影」這一較少為人窺察的區域。恰如作者所說，這部導覽主要是為了「能夠鼓勵參觀者制訂自己的觀展路線」，去收獲屬於自己的藝術認知。在這一點上，此書「起着引導宏大主題的寶貴作用」。

同時，本書配有71幅高清畫質精美插圖，由大英博物館館長、倫敦國家美術館館長親自作序推薦。

E.H.貢布里希（E. H. Gombrich，1909—2001），藝術史家。生於維也納，后移居英國。1959年起，任倫敦瓦爾堡研究院院長，直至1976年退休。1972年，獲封爵士；1988年，獲功績勛章。着有膾炙人口、影響深廣的《藝術的故事》和《世界小史》等書。

目錄

前言 尼爾•麥克格瑞格

導論 尼古拉斯•彭尼

投影諸貌

藝術史家的眼光

投影與光學法則

神話與傳說中的陰影

對繪畫史中投影的一些觀察

投影的藝術功能

以國家美術館的繪畫為例

注釋

致謝

姓名索引

圖片來源

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Yale University Press. 

September 10, 1997
224 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
40 b/w + 16 color illus.
ISBN: 9780300072723
Paper

Shadows and Enlightenment

Michael Baxandall

Shadows are holes in light. We see them all the time, and sometimes we notice them, but their part in our visual experience of the world is mysterious. In this book, an eminent art historian draws on contemporary cognitive science, eighteenth-century theories of visual perception, and art history to discuss shadows and the visual knowledge they can offer.

Michael Baxandall begins by describing the physical constitution and different varieties of shadows. He then sketches the eighteenth-century empirical/nativist debate on the role of shadows in the perception of shape. Next he surveys modern research by cognitive scientists and machine vision workers, explaining how research is divided on the issue of how far and by what means shadows help or hinder perception of shape. Baxandall continues his exploration by recounting a neglected episode of shadow theory, the observations of a group of mid-eighteenth-century French scientists and artists on shadows as related to light and space. Finally he sets these various shadow universes into relation with each other, addressing the special problem of painting shadows, and analyzes Chardin's painting The Young Draughtsman, in which shadow painting is both medium and theme. The book includes an appendix that situates and summarizes the shadow system of Leonardo da Vinci, which has had a strong though partly underground influence on thinking about shadows for five hundred years.

Michael Baxandall is professor of the history of art at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the author of Giotto and the Orators, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy, Patterns of Intention, The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany, and, with Svetlana Alpers, Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence. The last three books were published by