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.
Содержание
1. Introduction2. The surface’s substance
3. Nervous canvas
4. Limite sensitive
5. Skin colour
6. Seeing through the skin
7. Hermetic borderline
8. Epilogue: segregation
Index
Об авторе
Dorothy C. Rowe is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Bristol
язык английский ● Формат EPUB ● страницы 376 ● ISBN 9781526104670 ● Размер файла 6.1 MB ● издатель Manchester University Press ● город Manchester ● Страна GB ● опубликованный 2017 ● Загружаемые 24 месяцы ● валюта EUR ● Код товара 5369837 ● Защита от копирования Adobe DRM
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