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Fleshing out Surfaces: Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650-1850
Mechthild Fend
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Description for Fleshing out Surfaces: Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650-1850
Hardback. A strong and insightful work which argues that skin is not just any surface an artist can represent, but a highly overdetermined one. Focusing on five French painters - Fragonard, David, Girodet, Benoit and Ingres - it spans the fields of history of art and of medicine. Series Editor(s): Jones, Amelia; Meskimmon, Marsha. Series: Rethinking Art's Histories. Num Pages: 352 pages, 76 colour illustrations, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACQ; ACV; AFC; AGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 878.
Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and medical discourse in seventeenth to nineteenth-century France. Describing a gradual shift between the early modern and the modern period, it argues that what artists made when imitating human nakedness was not always the same. Initially understood in terms of the body's substance, of flesh tones and body colour, it became increasingly a matter of skin, skin colour and surfaces. Each chapter is dedicated to a different notion of skin and its colour, from flesh ... Read more
Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and medical discourse in seventeenth to nineteenth-century France. Describing a gradual shift between the early modern and the modern period, it argues that what artists made when imitating human nakedness was not always the same. Initially understood in terms of the body's substance, of flesh tones and body colour, it became increasingly a matter of skin, skin colour and surfaces. Each chapter is dedicated to a different notion of skin and its colour, from flesh ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Rethinking Art's Histories
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719087967
SKU
V9780719087967
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About Mechthild Fend
Mechthild Fend is Reader in History of Art at University College London -- .
Reviews for Fleshing out Surfaces: Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650-1850
'Fleshing out Surfaces makes for a rich and fascinating read. Fleshing out Surfaces contributes significantly to a growing body of work on the history of representing human skin in art and science by scholars such as Mieneke te Hennepe and Ann-Sophie Lehmann, among others.' Marieke M. A. Hendriksen - A Journal of eighteenth-century art and culture, March 2018 ... Read more