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Darkness :

(Number (ISBN

1780239823

(Number (ISBN

9781780239828

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Darkness :

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[Book]

Other Title Information

a cultural history /

First Statement of Responsibility

Nina Edwards.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London, UK :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Reaktion Books Ltd,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018.

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©2018

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294 pages :

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illustrations (some color) ;

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23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-284) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction -- Earth and Fire : How Darkness Came About -- The Ancients and How Darkness Brought About Everything Else -- The Art of Darkness -- Darkly Entertaining -- Photography, Electricity and the Moving Image -- The Psychology of Darkness and Sleep -- Dark Fashion -- The Darkness Shall Be the Light -- Conclusion.

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Darkness divides opinion. Some are frightened of the dark, or at least prefer to avoid it, and there are many who dislike what it appears to stand for. Others are drawn to its strange domain, delighting in its uncertainties, lured by all the associations of folklore and legend, by the call of the mysterious and of the unknown. The history of attitudes to what we cannot quite make out, in all its physical and metaphorical manifestations, challenges the notion that the world is possible to fully comprehend. Nina Edwards explores darkness as both physical feature and cultural image, through themes of sight, blindness, consciousness, dreams, fear of the dark, night blindness, and the in-between states of dusk or fog, twilight and dawn, the point or period of obscuration and clarification. Taking readers through different historical periods, she interrogates humanity's various attempts to harness and suppress the dark, from our early use of fire to the later discovery of electricity. She reveals how the idea of darkness pervades art, literature, religion and every aspect of our everyday language. Darkness: A Cultural History shows us how darkness has fed our imagination. Whether a shifting concept or real physical presence, it always conveys complex meaning.

Light and darkness in literature.

Light and darkness-- Social aspects.

Light in art.

Lighting.

Light and darkness in literature.

Light and darkness.

Light in art.

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Edwards, Nina, (Freelance writer)

Date of Transaction

20200823052906.0

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