Fleshing out surfaces : Skin in French art and medicine, 1650-1850

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fend, Mechthild
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Skin > Psychological aspects.
Skin in art.
Human skin color in art.
Art, French > Themes, motives.
Anatomy, Artistic.
ART > History > General.
Anatomie artistique.
Art français > Themes, motifs.
Couleur de la peau dans l'art.
Peau dans l'art.
Anatomy, Artistic
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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

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