This boundary-crossing monograph will appeal to readers interested in either or both fields: visual arts and human perception. The text incorporates abundant, rich illustrations specifically designed to cause the reader to linger and reevaluate the role of shadows in their own visual environment, and thus appreciate shadows with a new sense of understanding. While its language is certainly accessible to a general audience, the work will probably find its most enthusiastic readership among an academic or quasi-academic population. -Choice
Roberto Casati is the Director of the Jean Nicod Institute and Professor at EHESS in Paris. He is the coauthor of Holes and Other Superficialities and Parts and Places: The Structures of Spatial Representation, both published by the MIT Press. Patrick Cavanagh is a Senior Research Fellow at Glendon College of York University, Toronto, and Research Professor at Dartmouth College.