1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954425203321

Autore

Fend Mechthild

Titolo

Fleshing out surfaces : Skin in French art and medicine, 1650–1850 / / Mechthild Fend

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

9781526104670

1526104679

9781526120724

1526120720

9781526104663

1526104660

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 pages) : color illustrations

Collana

Rethinking art's histories

Disciplina

709.944

Soggetti

Skin - Psychological aspects

Skin in art

Human skin color in art

Art, French - Themes, motives

Anatomy, Artistic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-303) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The surface's substance -- Nervous canvas -- Sensitive limit -- Skin colour -- Seeing through the skin -- Hermetic borderline -- Epilogue : segregagtion.

Sommario/riassunto

'Fleshing out surfaces' is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and medical discourse in seventeenth to nineteenth-century France. Describing a gradual shift between the early modern and the modern period, it argues that what artists made when imitating human nakedness was not always the same. Initially understood in terms of the body's substance, of flesh tones and body colour, it became increasingly a matter of skin, skin colour and surfaces. Each chapter is



dedicated to a different notion of skin and its colour, from flesh tones via a membrane imbued with nervous energy to hermetic borderline. Looking in particular at works by Fragonard, David, Girodet, Benoist and Ingres, the focus is on portraits, as facial skin is a special arena for testing painterly skills and a site where the body and the image become equally expressive.--

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973786903321

Autore

Matsumoto Akito

Titolo

The International Diversification Puzzle when Goods Prices Are Sticky : : It's Really About Exchange-Rate Hedging, not Equity Portfolios / / Akito Matsumoto, Charles Engel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

9786612842344

9781462304325

146230432X

9781451988284

1451988281

9781451871593

1451871597

9781282842342

128284234X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

47 p

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

EngelCharles

Disciplina

332.152

Soggetti

Hedging (Finance)

Foreign exchange rates

Banks and Banking

Capital and Ownership Structure

Consumption

Currencies

Deflation

Economics

Financial institutions

Financial Instruments

Financial regulation and supervision

Financial Risk and Risk Management

Financial risk management

Financial services law & regulation



Financing Policy

Foreign Exchange

Goodwill

Government and the Monetary System

Hedging

Inflation

Institutional Investors

International Finance: General

Investment & securities

Investment Decisions

Investments: Stocks

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Monetary economics

Monetary Systems

Money and Monetary Policy

Money

National accounts

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Open Economy Macroeconomics

Payment Systems

Pension Funds

Portfolio Choice

Price Level

Prices

Regimes

Saving

Standards

Sticky prices

Stocks

Value of Firms

Wealth

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. A General Result in a Static Framework -- III. A Simple Equilibrium Static Model -- A. Households -- B. Firms -- C. Solution of the Static Model -- IV. Dynamic Model -- A. Household Problem -- B. Firms -- C. Solution of the Dynamic Model -- D. Calibrated Portfolios -- V. Conclusion -- Table -- 1. Optimal Portfolio Shares of Foreign Equities -- Appendix -- References.

Sommario/riassunto

This paper develops a two-country monetary DSGE model in which households choose a portfolio of home and foreign equities, and a forward position in foreign exchange. Some nominal goods prices are



sticky. Trade in these assets achieves the same allocations as trade in a complete set of nominal state-contingent claims in our linearized model. When there is a high degree of price stickiness, we show that not much equity diversification is required to replicate the complete-markets equilibrium when agents are able to hedge foreign exchange risk sufficiently. Moreover, temporarily sticky nominal goods prices can have large effects on equity portfolios even when dividend processes are very persistent.