Fleshing Out Surfaces Skin in French Art and Medicine 1650-1850
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- 9780719087967
- 21 december 2016
- 352 pagina's
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Fleshing out surfaces considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and medical discourse in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century France. It describes a gradual shift between the early modern and the modern period and 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.
Skin is the most significant surface for artistic imitation and flesh has often been described as a privileged site of life and lifelikeness. Skin and flesh entertain complex metaphorical relationships with artefacts, images and image making: fabricated surfaces are often described as skins, skin and colour have a longstanding connection and paint is frequently associated with flesh. This book traces the shift in the terminology of art theory and in the practices of painting, as well as engraving, colour printing and drawing. 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 and theorising painterly skills and a site where the body and the image made of it become equally expressive.
Fleshing out surfaces is essential reading for scholars and students of art history, visual culture, the medical humanities, the history of science and French history.
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.
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