Fleshing Out Surfaces : Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650-1850.
Fend, Mechthild.
Fleshing Out Surfaces : Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650-1850. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (347 pages) - Rethinking Art's Histories Series . - Rethinking Art's Histories Series .
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.
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.
9781526104663
Skin in art.
Electronic books.
N8243.S56.F463 2017
709.944
Fleshing Out Surfaces : Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650-1850. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (347 pages) - Rethinking Art's Histories Series . - Rethinking Art's Histories Series .
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.
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.
9781526104663
Skin in art.
Electronic books.
N8243.S56.F463 2017
709.944