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Fend, Mechthild

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Personal name headingFend, Mechthild
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AffiliationUniversity College, London
Profession or occupationCollege teachers
Found inPygmalions Werkstatt, 2001: t.p. (Mechthild Fend)
UCL (University College London), via WWW, December 6, 2017 (Dr Mechthild Fend; Mechthild Fend is Reader in History of Art at UCL and joined the department in 2006; previously (2001-2005) she was a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin; she specialises in French 18th- and 19th-century art and visual culture and the historically changing relations between art and science; she has also published on art theory and the historiography of art history, and she has lectured and published widely on skin, flesh tones, skin colour and artistic anatomy; she has co-edited five collected volumes and is the author of two monographs: Grenzen der Männlichkeit: Der Androgyn in der französischen Kunst und Kunsttheorie 1750-1830 (Berlin: Reimer, 2003) was translated into French as Les limites de la masculinité: L'androgyne dans l'art et la théorie de l'art en France 1750-1830 (Paris: La Decouverte, 2011); her second book is Fleshing out Surfaces: Skin in French art and medicine 1750-1850 (Manchester University Press, 2016))
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Associated languageger eng