Cabinet Magazine Online - A Short History of the Shadow: An Interview With

Victor I. Stoichita, Professor of the History of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, is the author of A Short History of the Shadow (Reaktion, 1997). In exploring the writings of Plato, Pliny, Leonardo, and Piaget, Stoichita explains how the shadow has always been integral to theories of art and knowledge, and investigates the complex psychological meanings we project into shadows. Christopher Turner spoke to him by phone.

Kinda cheesy kind of interesting. As I have wondered the same thing while studying art. A further study of shadow and perspective would be a more interesting aspect to approach, and how each have been constructed and then deconstructed in art. And any book that has to punk Duchamp and Warhol, isn't much of an Art History book to me. I guess I can't make such a claim until reading the final chapter.