Fleshing Out Surfaces: Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650-1850 (Rethinking Art's Histories) (Hardcover)
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