Fleshing Out Surfaces: Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650-1850.
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press USA : Manchester University Press,
2016.
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Colección: | Rethinking art's histories.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-303) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781526104663 1526104660 9781526120724 1526120720 |