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.

Bibliographic Details

Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Fend, Mechthild
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Oxford University Press USA : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Series:	Rethinking art's histories.
Subjects:	Skin in art. Human skin color in art. Skin > Psychological aspects. Art, French > Themes, motives. Anatomy, Artistic.