Fend, Mechthild

LC control no.	nr2001049279
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Fend, Mechthild *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Affiliation	University College, London
Profession or occupation	College teachers
Found in	Pygmalions 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)) <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/art-history/people/academic-staff/mechthild-fend>
Associated language	ger eng