Fleshing out surfaces [electronic resource] : skin in French art and medicine, 1650-1850 / Mechthild Fend.
'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...
Uniform Title: | Rethinking art's histories.
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Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2017.
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Series: | Rethinking art's histories.
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Fleshing out surfaces: Skin in French art and medicine, 1650-1850 |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
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Published: Manchester University Press, 2017
Fleshing out surfaces : skin in French art and medicine, 1650-1850
Published: Manchester University Press, 2017
Physical Description:
xvi, 314 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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