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Title: Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters by Robert Beverly Hale, Terence Coyle ISBN: 0-8230-0281-0 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good book, but lacks in the following.
Comment: Pick up this book if you are looking for a great artistic anatomy reference book. If you are looking for more than reference, however, you might want to look elsewhere. While this book is definitely good, it doesn't give the artist direction in how to draw or depict the illustrations. The text is pretty much straight-forward, usually only noting the parts of the bodies in the images. Second, this book lacks the poetic and great writing of Robert Beverly Hale.
Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters is more of an extra reference book or a supplement to Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters. In that book, Hale really teaches to the reader whats needed to depict anatomy, what steps the artist must take, gives tips on how to become a great or accomplished artist, why the artists of the past were so good, what mistakes beginners of figure drawing usually make, and sooooo much more. It's pretty much an incredible book to have even if you're not into figure drawing.
I think Anatomy Lessons would probably be more highly regarded in my eyes had Drawing Lessons been nonexistent. Anatomy Lessons is great for further reference, if thats what you're looking for though. I probably wouldn't recommend anyone to buy this book unless you already own or have thoroughly read and studied Drawing Lessons by the Great Masters.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent content
Comment: An excellent book on artistic anatomy. Reading this one book has taught me more than some figure drawing classes. A systematic deconstruction of how the masters of artistic anatomy have integrated their knowledge into some of the greatest drawings of all time. The book goes through the drawings of famous artists, categorized by the region of the body on which the drawings are focused, and attempts to explain how extensive knowledge of anatomy has been effectively applied. It touches on how these artists could create drawings which are more powerful than merely a photographic rendering of the model through their use of anatomy.
Unfortunately, the book is very cheaply bound. Entire leaves have detached themselves from the spine, though I have treated the book very well. My copy has turned into a stack of paper and scotch tape, wrapped loosely in its former cover. Despite that fact, I still consider it worth the purchase.
I have both this book and "Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters." Both are excellent books, but if you must only buy one, get this one. It is the better of the two.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent! Will advance your drawing / painting skills!
Comment: I teach human anatomy, and I draw and paint the human figure. Not until I took up studying artistic anatomy through Hale's book, especially this one, did my drawing skills and drawings and paintings zoom ahead in quality. Well worth the money, will provide hours, indeed years of reference for study.
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Title: Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters by Robert Beverly Hale ISBN: 0823014010 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: August, 1989 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Master Class in Figure Drawing by Robert Beverly Hale, Terence Cole ISBN: 0823030148 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Michelangelo Life Drawings by Michelangelo ISBN: 0486238768 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 February, 1980 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Artistic Anatomy by Dr. Paul Richer, Robert Beverly Hale ISBN: 0823002977 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: March, 1986 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Leonardo Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci ISBN: 0486239519 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 May, 1980 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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