Fleshing Out Surfaces 2017
DOI: 10.7228/manchester/9780719087967.003.0005
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Skin colour

Abstract: This chapter shows that the notion of skin colour emerged only gradually since the sixteenth century and became a prominent marker of race in conjunction with the development of racial anthropology during the Enlightenment. The colour of a person used to be perceived as body colour and often referred to as complexion, a term linked to the ancient medical theory of the four humours and temperaments. The artistic making and mixing of flesh tones was closely linked to humoral theory. By the eighteenth century mos… Show more

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“…Curtin, 2003; Schneider, 2014); fine arts (e.g. Fend, 2017); French literature (e.g. Kay, 2006; Walter, 2013) and history (Chaney, 2017) that may well interest readers of this issue.…”
Section: A Brief Overview Of Skin Studiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Curtin, 2003; Schneider, 2014); fine arts (e.g. Fend, 2017); French literature (e.g. Kay, 2006; Walter, 2013) and history (Chaney, 2017) that may well interest readers of this issue.…”
Section: A Brief Overview Of Skin Studiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the second act of the film, the audience ‘knows’ that her addiction has progressed because her hair is messy and her skin is now make-up free and there are visible blemishes or scars on her chin. Mechthild Fend, one of the few art historians currently working on skin, states: ‘The face’s potential to signify has often led to the metaphoric association with canvas and paintings – both face and canvas are surfaces on which colour and line work and produce meaning’ (Fend, 2017: 5). In representations of female addicts, dirty skin and blemished faces signify not only addiction but also failed or deviant femininity.…”
Section: Dirty Skin Dirty Addictmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Mechthild Fend (2017: 10) argues that from the late 18th century onwards, there was a:new focus on the surface and the borderlines of the body and a new understanding of the skin as physical demarcation of the self…. [The] word ‘skin’ rather than ‘flesh’ is used with increasing frequency when referring to the surface or substance an artist imitates when painting the naked parts of a human body.…”
Section: All Signs Failingmentioning
confidence: 99%
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