The temperamental nude : class, medicine and representation in eighteenth-century France / Tony Halliday

Author: Halliday, Tony (Anthony)
Published: Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 2010.
Physical Description: xiii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Availability

Finding items...

Series

SVEC ; 2010:05.

Contents

The natural order -- The labour of love -- Temperament and the body -- Temperament and the ideal : ancient and modern -- The citizen body : the politics of abstraction -- A body one and indivisible : Jacobin representations of the people -- The labels of Hercules : representing the body after Thermidor -- The trouble with Tatius : David's Sabines and the end of public art.

Subject(s)

Art, French—18th century
Medicine in art
Social classes in art
Figurative art, French—18th century

ISBN

9780729409940 (pbk.)
0729409945 (pbk.)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index.

View MARC record | catkey: 9176386