Fleshing out surfaces : skin in French art and medicine, 1650-1850 / Mechthild Fend.
Fleshing out surfaces : skin in French art and medicine, 1650-1850 / Mechthild Fend.
Fleshing out surfaces : skin in French art and medicine, 1650-1850 / Mechthild Fend.
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Publisher
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Call Numbers
G 2017/712
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MMS ID
Language
English
Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
xvi, 314 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The surface's substance -- Nervous canvas -- Sensitive limit -- Skin colour -- Seeing through the skin -- Hermetic borderline -- Epilogue : segregagtion.
Publication information
Publisher
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2017.
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Summary
'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 nakedne...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Fleshing out surfaces : skin in French art and medicine, 1650-1850 / Mechthild Fend.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Rethinking art's histories
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-303) and index.
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
G 2017/712
Record Identifier
74VKV7DB4loy
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV7DB4loy
Other Identifiers
ISBN
0719087961 hardback
9780719087967 hardback
DDC
709.944
MMS ID
991024063184402626
