The temperamental nude
Subtitle: class, medicine and representation in eighteenth-century France
By: Tony Halliday
Series: SVEC -- 2010:5; SVEC -- 2010:5.
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780729409940
Subjects: French Figurative art; Medicine in art; Social classes in art; French Art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: The natural order; title: The labour of love; title: Temperament and the body; title: Temperament and the ideal : ancient and modern; title: The citizen body : the politics of abstraction; title: A body one and indivisible : Jacobin representations of the people; title: The labels of Hercules : representing the body after Thermidor; title: The trouble with Tatius : David's Sabines and the end of public art.