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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Rethinking Art's Histories SeriesPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (347 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526104663
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fleshing Out SurfacesDDC classification:
  • 709.944
LOC classification:
  • N8243.S56.F463 2017
Online resources:
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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