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Fleshing out Surfaces: Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650–1850 - Rethinking Art's Histories Mechthild Fend
Fleshing out Surfaces: Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650–1850 - Rethinking Art's Histories
Mechthild Fend
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. -- .
352 pages, 76 colour illustrations, 16 black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 21, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9780719087967 |
| Publishers | Manchester University Press |
| Pages | 352 |
| Dimensions | 163 × 243 × 24 mm · 892 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Jones, Amelia |
| Series Editor | Meskimmon, Marsha |