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Author Fend, Mechthild.

Title Fleshing Out Surfaces: Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650-1850.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Oxford University Press USA : Manchester University Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Rethinking art's histories
Rethinking art's histories.
Contents Cover; Fleshing out surfaces; Contents; List of illustrations ; Acknowledgments ; 1 Introduction; 2 The surface's substance; 3 Nervous canvas; 4 Sensitive limit; 5 Skin colour; 6 Seeing through the skin; 7 Hermetic borderline; 8 Epilogue: segregation; Select bibliography; Index
Summary 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-303) and index.
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Subject Skin in art.
Skin in art.
Human skin color in art.
Human skin color in art.
Skin -- Psychological aspects.
Skin -- Psychological aspects.
Skin.
Art, French -- Themes, motives.
Art, French -- Themes, motives.
Art, French.
Anatomy, Artistic.
Anatomy, Artistic.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Original 9780719087967 0719087961 (OCoLC)948560728
ISBN 9781526104663 (electronic book)
1526104660 (electronic book)
9780719087967
0719087961
9781526120724
1526120720