"With the shadow's seductive associations to sexuality, mystery, danger, intangible power, and death, the use of shadows as artistic technique saturates both classic and modern art forms, and yet the practice remains almost invisible. As the first full-length study of art shadow…
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Grasping Shadows offers the most thorough examination of the cultural uses of shadows. Exploring a myriad of major literary and artistic evocations of shadows, Grasping Shadows puts forth a unifying theory for how shadows function and how they transformed our relationship to dar…
"In this investigative tour de force, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges to beset Western artists - the depiction and meanings of shadows. The representation of shadow, and especially of cast shadow, is as old …
Stoichita's compelling account untangles the history of one of the most enduring challenges to beset Western art - the depiction and meanings of shadows.""discriminating, inspired interrogation ... dazzling analysis""--Marina Warner, Tate Magazine""Ambitious and a pleasure to re…
An investigation into the meaning and symbolism of the shadow, drawing on painting, literature, photography and film, from Plato to Andy Warhol and advertising images.
Real-Time Shadows
by Schwarz, Michael, Eisemann, Elmar, Assarsson, Ulf, Wimmer, Michael
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Important elements of games, movies, and other computer-generated content, shadows are crucial for enhancing realism and providing important visual cues. In recent years, there have been notable improvements in visual quality and speed, making high-quality realistic real-time sh…
Real-time shadows
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