Fleshing out Surfaces: Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650-1850
- Submitting institution
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University College London
: A - UoA32A UCL History of Art Department
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory : A - UoA32A UCL History of Art Department
- Output identifier
- 1271
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 9780719087967
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The product of over ten years of archival work and 352 pages long, this is the first English language book to examine flesh and skin in art theory, image making, and medical discourse in seventeenth to nineteenth-century France. It consists of seven chapters, each examining different notions of skin and its colour and their important place in medical and artistic discourses. Reviews point out its remarkable contribution to the cultural construction of the body, the theory and practice of portraiture, and the early modern focus on facial skin at the intersection of body and image.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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