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, i...

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Main Author:	Fend, Mechthild (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Series:	Rethinking art's histories.
Subjects:	Skin in art. Human skin color in art. Skin > Psychological aspects. Art, French > Themes, motives. Anatomy, Artistic.