TY - BOOK ID - 80836574 TI - Probing the skin : cultural representations of our contact zone AU - Rosenthal, Caroline AU - Vanderbeke, Dirk PY - 2015 SN - 9781443875189 144387518X 1322889767 9781322889764 1443870684 9781443870689 PB - Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Human body in literature KW - Body, Human, in literature KW - Human figure in literature KW - History. KW - Research. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80836574 AB - Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores representations of skin in literature, art, art history, visual media, and medicine and its history. The essays collected here probe the symbolic potential of skin as a shifting sign in various historical and cultural contexts, and also examine the material and organic properties of the body's largest organ. They deal with skin as a sensual organ, as an interface or contact zone, as the visual marker of identity, and as a lieu de memoire in different periods and media. In its material characteristics, skin is regarded as a medium, a ER -