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Fleshing out Surfaces - Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650-1850 (Hardcover)
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Fleshing out Surfaces - Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650-1850 (Hardcover)
Series: Rethinking Art's Histories
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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 that what artists
made when imitating human nakedness was not always the same.
Initially understood in terms of the body's substance, of flesh
tones and body colour, it became increasingly a matter of skin,
skin colour and surfaces. Each chapter is dedicated to a different
notion of skin and its colour, from flesh tones via a membrane
imbued with nervous energy to hermetic borderline. Looking in
particular at works by Fragonard, David, Girodet, Benoist and
Ingres, the focus is on portraits, as facial skin is a special
arena for testing painterly skills and a site where the body and
the image become equally expressive. -- .
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