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This richly illustrated book takes readers on a tour through the
history of art to learn how artists have used light (and its lack
of it as shadow) to make a statement about their subject matter or
create a specific mood, with examples by masters such as Giotto,
Botticelli, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Courbet, Turner, Klimt, and many
more, as well as theoretical approaches starting with Plato and
Aristotle, moving on to Descartes, Newton, Goethe and Chevreul.
Brimming with illustrations, this stunningly original book presents
the role of light in art throughout history. Throughout history,
artists have played with light, approaching it as both a subject
and tool to create the desired atmosphere, convey ideas, and
inspire emotions in the viewer. In medieval frescoes, rays of light
stood for the presence of the divine, while 17th-century Dutch
painters used light to indicate depth and construct an impactful
setting. The Impressionists wanted to depict light itself and the
way it plays upon the surfaces of objects in the form of color.
Photography and film have used light, both natural and artificial,
to make things visible in the first place. This volume delves into
these and many more topics and constitutes a perfect reference book
for artists, students, scholars, and art lovers.
How do images hold and convey meaning? How do we understand them?
What are they trying to say? How do they persuade and influence us?
The author writes a complete account analyzing the meaning and
construction of images, throughout history to present times, from
the point of view of visual rhetoric. From advertising to graphic
design, cinema and art, the book takes the reader on a journey of
metaphors, metonymies, hyperboles and other rhetorical figures,
which compose the visual language and the power of its meaning. By
learning to identify them, and knowing examples of how they have
been used, the reader will learn how to use and master the language
of images.
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