Appel à contribution : “Showing Skin – Epidermal Surfaces in Early Modern Art”, RSA, date limite le 1er août 2025
Type : Paper panel
Session Abstract (Max. 300 words) : While skin is the largest organ of the human body, it is also a liminal one that equally contains, reveals, and conceals the body’s interior anatomies and psychic states. As such, it has often achieved an uneasy status between visibility and transparency. Artists gaze intently upon the epidermal surfaces of nude models, but often with the intent to reveal underlying bodily structures. Physicians can diagnose from skin, but surgeons and anatomists also cut through it to access the internal organs. Fashion and costume designers can adorn it, but just as often seek to cover or embellish skin with foreign materials in order to reveal class and status.
This panel will explore artistic representations of skin as a meaning-bearing site and subject in itself. What early modernists thought about epidermal surfaces says much about then-current understandings of anatomy, medicine, psychology, personhood, social standing, and even the body’s exposure to natural environments. We seek papers that draw from interdisciplinary fields of knowledge to offer new perspectives for the display of skin in early modern art. We are particularly interested in papers that address altered, or even transgressive, bodies revealed through skin as a mutable surface that records conditional states by way of color, texture, and other visible and haptic qualities. These can include but are not limited to disease, heightened emotional or psychological states, even the flesh of dead bodies that decay.
Proposals should include:
• Full name, current affiliation, and email address
• Paper title (max. 15 words)
• Paper abstract (max 150 words)
• 2-page CV
Submit proposals by August 1, 2025 to Andrew Casper (casperar@miamioh.edu) and Theresa Flanigan (Theresa.Flanigan@ttu.edu).
Disciplines : Art and Architecture ; History
Organizers : Andrew Casper and Theresa Flanigan
Contact emails : casperar@miamioh.edu and Theresa.Flanigan@ttu.edu
CFP Deadline : August 1, 2025
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
inayaallioui (29 juillet 2025). Appel à contribution : “Showing Skin – Epidermal Surfaces in Early Modern Art”, RSA, date limite le 1er août 2025. Collectif d'Historiens de l'Art de la Renaissance. Consulté le 11 novembre 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/14g1t



