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Summary: You cannot teach anatomy in 96 Pages !
Review: "Anatomy and Perspective: Fundamentals of Figure Drawing" by Charles Oliver: a DOVER book Some people might be induced to buy an anatomy book that devotes a mere 96 pages to the subject of human anatomy for the artist. Moreover, if anyone could accomplish this, perhaps we could expect DOVER PUBLISHING to be able to do it. However, this is not ONLY a book about Anatomy, but also presumes to instruct in Perspective, and the "fundamentals of figure drawing" also. So it's 96 pages divided 3 ways. The text fails to accomplish its task, giving only a brief and superficial, woefully inadequate instruction and cannot really replace some of the current IN-PRINT texts still on the market, even if they cost 7 or 8 dollars more. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, in drawing instruction, LESS is not MORE. A book buyer need not pay MORE money to get a good book; BUT...the buyer does need to have a book that covers the subject thoroughly. It doesn't make much sense to buy a brief but cheaper book if you have to go back out and spend double that price to get a book that covers the subject well.
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Summary: You cannot teach anatomy in 96 Pages !
Review: "Anatomy and Perspective: Fundamentals of Figure Drawing" by Charles Oliver: a DOVER book Some people might be induced to buy an anatomy book that devotes a mere 96 pages to the subject of human anatomy for the artist. Moreover, if anyone could accomplish this, perhaps we could expect DOVER PUBLISHING to be able to do it. However, this is not ONLY a book about Anatomy, but also presumes to instruct in Perspective, and the "fundamentals of figure drawing" also. So it's 96 pages divided 3 ways. The text fails to accomplish its task, giving only a brief and superficial, woefully inadequate instruction and cannot really replace some of the current IN-PRINT texts still on the market, even if they cost 7 or 8 dollars more. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, in drawing instruction, LESS is not MORE. A book buyer need not pay MORE money to get a good book; BUT...the buyer does need to have a book that covers the subject thoroughly. It doesn't make much sense to buy a brief but cheaper book if you have to go back out and spend double that price to get a book that covers the subject well.
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