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

Informationen zum Autor Mechthild Fend is Reader in History of Art at University College London Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. The surface's substance2. Nervous canvas3. Limite sensitive4. Skin colour5. Seeing through the skin6. Hermetic borderline7. Epilogue: segregationIndex

Product details

• Authors: Mechthild Fend
• Assisted by: Amelia Jones (Editor), Marsha Meskimmon (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.12.2016
• EAN: 9780719087967
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8796-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Rethinking Art's Histories; Rethinking Arts Histories Mup; Rethinking Art's Histories
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history