Isbn: 9780719087967 - Fleshing Out Surfaces: Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650–1850 (rethinking Art's Histories) (17 results)

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Condition: New. 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. Series Editor(s): Jones, Amelia; Meskimmon, Marsha. Series: Rethinking Art's Histories. Num Pages: 352 pages, 76 colour illustrations, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACQ; ACV; AFC; AGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 878. . 2017. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . .…

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Hardback. Condition: New. 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.…

Condition: New. 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. Series Editor(s): Jones, Amelia; Meskimmon, Marsha. Series: Rethinking Art's Histories. Num Pages: 352 pages, 76 colour illustrations, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACQ; ACV; AFC; AGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 878. . 2017. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. 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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Hardcover. Condition: gut. 2017. Fleshing out Surfaces: Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650-1850 In englischer Sprache. pages.

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