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"I have used the book regularly for about 35 years and have found the mix of 'clinical' type renderings, clear 'muscle' charts, description and sectional graphic structural sketch pages to be excellent and to the point."--
"Very good illustrations/explanations--very helpful for students to understand such a complex system."--J.P. Manlapaz, North Virginia Community College
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Probably few beginners have entered the Life Class with any real appreciation of skeletal structure. Read the first page
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Complete Artistic Decomposition of the Human Form,
By Necron2.0 (Phoenix, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist (Paperback)
This book is fantastic. I have not seen (ever) a better description of human anatomy, bodily motion and the methodology for capturing both in artistic media. This book describes every detail of the human anatomy from multiple angles.In the section describing the bones, it shows you how the bones look for all ages and each sex. It shows you how the bones move, and work together. It shows you what the bones look like from the underside. In the sections covering muscles, it shows you how fat is stored in the muscle, how the the muscles move, how blood vessles show through the muscle and how the muscles layer. There are detailed portrayals of proportion, motion, emotion and prospective, all in photos and drawn graphics - not just in words. As I said, I've never seen a better book for describing the human body to an artist, and I've been on the look-out for more than 20 years.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
good for the price,
By A Customer
This review is from: Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist (Paperback)
I guess I shouldn't admit to this, but I use this as the textbook for my figure drawing class. The book is pretty [inexpensive], and it's pretty clear, and I haven't found something better that doesn't cost a whole lot more. It was published in the 50s, and it hasn't been changed one bit, so the usual number of cornball drawings are included (they look VERY 50s). And the racial and gender characterizations are incredibly goofy and/or offensive. I'm a woman, and believe me, I've seen worse characterizations, but still. The racial characterizations are truly amazing: really booga booga (oddly, no women are included in the photographs of the races). Lest white men think they're off the hook, they're not. Many of them get the Ken-doll treatement (blurred-out genetalia: at least I hope they've just been blurred out).Still, the price of the book is right and has lots of good basic information (I like the descriptions of joints and how they work: very 50s and very easy to understand. It SURE would be nice if somebody would publish lots of pictures of skeletons next to muscle overlays next to photos of real people in natural poses (all kinds of normal people, and skeleton, muscle, and humans side by side). So far, everything I find is so stupid. Barcsay is still probably the best book, but lacking in some cohesiveness.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great on Anatomy but Beware the Racism and Sexism,
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This review is from: Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist (Paperback)
Originaly published in 1951, the Complete Atlas, while probably the best and most comprehensive anatomy book available for artists, betrays its age with what is now clearly objectionable racist and sexist content. Illustrations and photographs of male models and body structure outnumber those of women by at least ten to one. Incidentally, sexist prioritization places the female form in a small section toward the back of the book.This sexist bias extends to the text, which describes the female body in less than glowing terms while lauding the ideal nature of the male form. An example from page 175 on the navel: "In the female a large deposit of fat, especially below the navel, causes the pit to be deep and obscure in detail. The navel of a lean, muscular male is distinct and firmly rimmed." The short section on racial features contains perhaps even more offensive language, describing dark-skinned people as having a "muzzle"! I assumed that this must be a technical anatomical term applicable to all human beings but the only other reference to it in the book occurs in a note on genetic defects. As might be expected, illustration of racial types also starts with the Nordic male and whiter peoples first, in tacit hierarchy. While the racism and sexism of Peck's book may be mild for its time, it seems that our enlightened sensibilites demand an updating of the text. I am not an individual who supports political correctness but I believe these issues need to be addressed in their own right and before giving the book a perfect five stars.
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