 | Fleshing out surfaces Subjects: Skin; Skin in art.; Human skin color in art.; Art French; Anatomy Artistic.; Anatomy Artistic.; Art French; Skin; Human skin color in art.; Skin in art.; A strong and insightful work which argues that skin is not just any surface an artist can represent, but a highly overdetermined one. Focusing on five French painters - Fragonard, David, Girodet, Benoit and Ingres - it spans the fields of history of art and of medicine. Mechthild Fend is Reader in History of Art at University College London |
