Fleshing out surfaces Skin in French art and medicine, 1650-1850

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 tha...

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Hlavní autor: Fend, Mechthild
Médium: E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Manchester Manchester University Press 2017
Vydání:1st ed.
Edice:Rethinking art's histories
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ISBN:1526104660, 9781526104663, 0719087961, 9780719087967
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  • Front Matter Table of Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgements [Illustrations] 1: Introduction 2: The surface’s substance 3: Nervous canvas 4: Sensitive limit 5: Skin colour 6: Seeing through the skin 7: Hermetic borderline 8: Epilogue: Select bibliography Index
  • Cover Half Title, Series Page, Title Page, Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Image Plates 1. Introduction 2. The surface’s substance 3. Nervous canvas 4. Sensitive limit 5. Skin colour 6. Seeing through the skin 7. Hermetic borderline 8. Epilogue: segretation Select bibliography Index
  • Cover -- Fleshing out surfaces -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The surface's substance -- 3 Nervous canvas -- 4 Sensitive limit -- 5 Skin colour -- 6 Seeing through the skin -- 7 Hermetic borderline -- 8 Epilogue: segregation -- Select bibliography -- Index
  • 5 Skin colour
  • 8 Epilogue: segregation
  • Index
  • Select bibliography
  • List of illustrations
  • 7 Hermetic borderline
  • 1 Introduction
  • Mechthild Fend --
  • 6 Seeing through the skin
  • Contents
  • 2 The surface’s substance
  • Acknowledgments
  • Mechthild Fend
  • 4 Sensitive limit
  • 3 Nervous canvas
  • Plates
  • Front matter