Stoichita`s compelling account untangles the history of one of the most enduring challenges to beset Western art - the depiction and meanings of shadows.

Contents:
Introduction
1. The Shadow Stage
2. The Shadow of the Flesh
3. A Shadow on the Painting
4. Around `The Uncanny`
5. Man and his Doubles
6. Of Shadow and its Reproducibility during the Photographic Era
7. In the Shadow of the Eternal Return
References
List of Illustrations