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"Body"
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"Visual Arts"
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Nationality of Author:
"French"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Materialist or Mortalist"
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Work title:
"L'Homme machine [Man a Machine]"
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Date: 1748, 1749
"By its flattering pencil the cold skeleton of abstract reason assumes living and vermillion flesh; but it the sciences flourish, arts are embellished, woods speak, echoes sigh, rocks weep, marble breathes, and all the inanimate bodies are suddenly inspired with life."
preview | full record— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)