Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist

Stephen Rogers Peck

Publication Date - February 1982

ISBN: 9780195030952

288 pages
Paperback
7-1/2 x 10 inches

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A classic manual for art students--and indeed all artists--working with the human form

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Stephen Rogers Peck's Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist remains unsurpassed as a manual for students. It includes sections on bones, muscles, surface anatomy, proportion, equilibrium, and locomotion. Other unique features are sections on the types of human physique, anatomy from birth to old age, an orientation on racial anatomy, and an analysis of facial expressions. The wealth of information offered by the Atlas ensures its place as a classic for the study of the human form.

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Unsurpassed as a manual for students, this Atlas includes sections on bones, muscles, surface anatomy, proportion, equilibrium, and locomotion.
Other unique features are sections on the types of human physique, anatomy from birth to old age, an orientation on racial anatomy, and an analysis of facial expressions.
The wealth of information offered by the Atlas ensures its place as a classic for the study of the human form.

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"An exhaustive but absorbingly interesting treatise.... The artist will find it planned and written with a completeness and orderliness which make it the perfect reference book."--Art News and Review

"Ingeniously edited, well-organized, and illustrated with almost a thousand excellent factual three-dimensional renderings."--Los Angeles Times

Preface

Part I: Bones

Part II: Muscles

Part III. Surface Anatomy

Part IV: Proportion

Part V: Equilibrium and Locomotion

Part VI: Dinstinctions of Age, Sex, and Race

Part VII: Agents of

Expression

Pronunciation of Terms
Index

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