TY - BOOK ID - 78492044 TI - Fleshing out surfaces : skin in French art and medicine, 1650-1850 PY - 2017 SN - 1526120720 1526104660 9781526104663 9781526120724 9780719087967 0719087961 1526104679 PB - Manchester Manchester University Press DB - UniCat KW - Skin KW - Skin in art. KW - Human skin color in art. KW - Art, French KW - Anatomy, Artistic. KW - Art, Modern KW - French art KW - Ecole de Nice (Group of artists) KW - Forces nouvelles (Group of artists) KW - Nabis (Group of artists) KW - Ne pas plier (Group of artists) KW - Artistic anatomy KW - Human anatomy in art KW - Art KW - Nude in art KW - Human figure in art KW - Medicine and art KW - Proportion (Art) KW - Cutis KW - Integument (Skin) KW - Beauty, Personal KW - Body covering (Anatomy) KW - Psychological aspects. KW - Themes, motives. KW - Skin in art KW - Human figure in art. KW - Peau dans l'art KW - Couleur de la peau dans l'art KW - Corps humain dans l'art KW - Anatomie artistique KW - Art français KW - Human medicine KW - skin [animal component] KW - anno 1600-1699 KW - anno 1700-1799 KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - France KW - art theory, France 1600-1900. KW - artistic anatomy 1700-1900. KW - colour. KW - flesh tones. KW - history of the body. KW - materiality. KW - medical History, 1600-1900. KW - painterly practice. KW - painting, France 1700-1850. KW - skin colour. KW - skin. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78492044 AB - '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.-- ER -