Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form

Goldfinger, Eliot

ISBN 10: 0195052064 / ISBN 13: 9780195052060

Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1991

About this Item

Hardcover large format folio size volume bound in light gray cloth and housed in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 348 pages. Profusely illustrated with line drawings and photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. A signed and inscribed copy by the author to Cary {Ellen} Boone Nelson, on front free end-paper, dated March 1993. Carey Boone Nelson was an accomplished sculptor who studied, among other places, at the New York Art Students League, where the author, a renowned sculptor and illustrator in his own right, was an instructor and principally responsible for developing their anatomy program. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, near like new. A very nice association copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. A heavy, oversize book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195052064
• ISBN 13: 9780195052060
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • Reference

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Synopsis

The power of the image of the nude--the expressivity of the flesh--has inspired artists from the beginning. An understanding of human form is essential for artists to be able to express themselves with the figure. Anatomy makes the figure. Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form is the definitive analytical work on the anatomy of the human figure.
No longer will working artists have to search high and low to find the information they need. In this, the most up-to-date and fully illustrated guide available, Eliot Goldfinger--sculptor, illustrator, scientific model-maker, and lecturer on anatomy--presents a single, all-inclusive reference to human form, capturing everything artists need in one convenient volume. Five years in the making, and featuring hundreds of photos and illustrations, this guide offers more views of each bone and muscle than any other book ever published: every structure that creates or influences surface form is individually illustrated in clear, carefully lit photographs and meticulous drawings. Informed by the detailed study of both live models and cadavers, it includes numerous unique presentations of surface structures--such as fat pads, veins, and genitalia--and of some muscles never before photographed. In addition, numerous cross sections, made with reference to CT scans, magnetic resonance imaging, and cut cadavers, trace the forms of all body regions and individual muscles. Information on each structure is placed on facing pages for ease of reference, and the attractive two-color format uses red ink to direct readers rapidly to important points and areas. Finally, an invaluable chapter on the artistic development of basic forms shows in a series of sculptures the evolution of the figure, head, and hands from basic axes and volumes to more complex organic shapes. This feature helps place the details of anatomy within the overall context of the figure.
Certain to become the standard reference in the field, Human Anatomy for Artists will be indispensable to artists and art students, as well as art historians. It will also be a useful aid for physical and dance therapists, athletes and their trainers, bodybuilders, and anyone concerned with the external form of the human body. With the renewed interest in figurative art today, this will be an especially welcome volume.

About the Author

Eliot Goldfinger, a renowned sculptor and illustrator, developed the anatomy program at The New York Academy of Art and has been an instructor at The Art Student's League in New York City.