Mechthild Fend

Mechthild Fend is a German art historian and university professor .

Career

Fend studied at the University of Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1998 from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

From 2000 to 2001 Mechthild Fend was a fellow of the Getty Foundation . She worked at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin from 2001 to 2005. After one year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , since 2006, she has been at the Institute for Art History at University College London .

Mechthild Fend's research focuses on depictions of the human skin, the incarnate .

Publications (selection)

Essays

• Portraying Skin Disease. Robert Carswell's dermatological watercolors . In: Kevin Siena and Jonathan Reinarz (Eds.): A Medical History of skin. Scratching the surface . Pickering and Chatto, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-8489-3413-9 , pp. 147-164.
• Skin like soft marble. The portraits of women by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres . In: Oliver Jehle and Sabine Slanina (eds.): Similarity and disfigurement. The portrait's tendency towards delimitation . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-422-06703-5 , pp. 95–112.
• Transplantation, Emblems of Durability. Preserves, Tattoos and Photographs . In: Performance Research. A journal of performing arts / Special Issue , Vol. 14 (2009), Issue 4, pp. 45-52, ISSN  1352-8165
• Bone and contour. On the body boundary in 19th century artist anatomy . In: Imagery of Knowledge. Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch für Bildkritik , Vol. 7 2008, pp. 79–89, ISSN  1611-2512

Books

• together with Daniela Bohde (Ed.): Neither skin nor flesh. The incarnate in art history (New Frankfurt Research on Art; Vol. 3). Verlag Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7861-2545-7 .
• together with Marianne Koos (ed.): Masculinity in view. Visual staging since the early modern period (literature, culture, gender / large series; BD. 30). Böhlau, Cologne 2004, ISBN 978-3-4120-7204-9 .
• Limits of Manhood. The androgynous in French art and art theory 1750–1830 . Reimer, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-496-01286-3 (also dissertation, University of Frankfurt / M. 1997)

Web links

• Literature by and about Mechthild Fend in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Mechthild Fend, Visiting Scholar
2. ↑ University College London: Art History Institute Mechthild Fend ( Memento of the original of September 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 17, 2014. 
3. ↑ Interlocutors: Mechthild Fend ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 17, 2014. 
4. ↑ arthistoricum: Review by Christoph Vogtherr: Limits of Masculinity. The Androgyny in French Art and Art Theory 1750-1830 , accessed June 17, 2014.