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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 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.--

Skin --- Skin in art. --- Human skin color in art. --- Art, French --- Anatomy, Artistic. --- Art, Modern --- French art --- Ecole de Nice (Group of artists) --- Forces nouvelles (Group of artists) --- Nabis (Group of artists) --- Ne pas plier (Group of artists) --- Artistic anatomy --- Human anatomy in art --- Art --- Nude in art --- Human figure in art --- Medicine and art --- Proportion (Art) --- Cutis --- Integument (Skin) --- Beauty, Personal --- Body covering (Anatomy) --- Psychological aspects. --- Themes, motives. --- Skin in art --- Human figure in art. --- Peau dans l'art --- Couleur de la peau dans l'art --- Corps humain dans l'art --- Anatomie artistique --- Art français --- Human medicine --- skin [animal component] --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- France --- art theory, France 1600-1900. --- artistic anatomy 1700-1900. --- colour. --- flesh tones. --- history of the body. --- materiality. --- medical History, 1600-1900. --- painterly practice. --- painting, France 1700-1850. --- skin colour. --- skin.