Fleshing out surfaces
type: CreativeWork
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126558
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320129099
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330134746
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  alternate name: Anatomy, Artistic
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  alternate name: Skin--Psychological aspects
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  alternate name: Skin in art
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  alternate name: Skin--Psychological aspects
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  alternate name: Human skin color in art
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  alternate name: Human skin color in art
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  alternate name: Skin in art
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  alternate name: Art, French--Themes, motives
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  alternate name: Anatomy, Artistic
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  alternate name: Art, French--Themes, motives
abstract: '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.--
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31035184
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: The surface's substance -- Nervous canvas -- Sensitive limit -- Skin colour -- Seeing through the skin -- Hermetic borderline -- Epilogue : segregagtion.
temporal coverage: 1650-1850
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301267455

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