Fleshing out surfaces: Skin in French art and medicine, 1650-1850 by Mechthild Fend

Fleshing out surfaces: Skin in French art and medicine, 1650-1850

Rethinking Art's Histories

Mechthild Fend

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nonfiction art health history medium-paced
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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 ...

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