Fleshing out surfaces [electronic resource] : skin in French art and medicine, 1650-1850 / Mechthild Fend.

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'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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Rethinking art's histories.
Main Author: Fend, Mechthild (Author)
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Series:Rethinking art's histories.
Subjects:
Skin in art.
Human skin color in art.
Skin > Psychological aspects.
Art, French > Themes, motives.
Anatomy, Artistic.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2016 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2016 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2016 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Fleshing out surfaces: Skin in French art and medicine, 1650-1850
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • The surface's substance
  • Nervous canvas
  • Sensitive limit
  • Skin colour
  • Seeing through the skin
  • Hermetic borderline
  • Epilogue : segregagtion.