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

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Fend, Mechthild

 
9780719087967: Fleshing Out Surfaces: Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650-1850
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ISBN 10 : 0719087961 ISBN 13 : 9780719087967
Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and medical discourse in seventeenth to nineteenth-century France. Describing a gradual shift between the early modern and the modern period, it argues that what artists made when imitating human nakedness was not always the same. Initially understood in terms of the body's substance, of flesh tones and body colour, it became increasingly a matter of skin, skin colour and surfaces. Each chapter is dedicated to a different notion of skin and its colour, from flesh tones via a membrane imbued with nervous energy to hermetic borderline. Looking in particular at works by Fragonard, David, Girodet, Benoist and Ingres, the focus is on portraits, as facial skin is a special arena for testing painterly skills and a site where the body and the image become equally expressive.

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À propos de l?auteur

Mechthild Fend is Reader in History of Art at University College London

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Éditeur
Manchester University Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0719087961
ISBN 13 
9780719087967
Reliure
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Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
352
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