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

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.

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Main Author: Fend, Mechthild
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Oxford University Press USA : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Series:Rethinking art's histories.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-303) and index.
ISBN:9781526104663
1526104660
9781526120724
1526120720

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