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The Temperamental Nude: Class, Medicine and Representation in eighteenth-century France

English

By (author): Tony Halliday

Although discredited by seventeenth-century scientists, temperament theory which attributed human moods to the interaction of four distinct bodily fluids or humours was refashioned a century later to create a moral and physiological typology of social classes. This revival was the work of leading physiologists of the time, but the impact of their thinking extended far beyond medicine to embrace the history of ideas and, in particular, the representation of the human body in art.

In this richly-illustrated book, Tony Halliday argues that matters of artistic representation were closely connected to medical and political discourses throughout the later eighteenth century, especially during the successive phases of the French Revolution. He explores the effects of the reworked theory of humours on visual representation, focusing on:

  • the interaction of art and politics in debates about the visual portrayal of the new citizen
  • Antique notions of an ideal body and their transformation in contemporary art
  • the concept of a new muscular temperament, and its social, political and artistic implications
  • the impact of certain works of art such as Bouchardons statue of Cupid fashioning a bow from the club of Herculesand the unease they revealed in late eighteenth-century Europe about the relationship of character, appearance and occupation.
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 07 May 2010
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780729409940

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