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Summary: An artist's point of view
Review: Why isn't this book on the reading list of every single art school? If you really want to understand what's inside the human body and aren't fortunate enough to sit in on some dissections, this book is absolutely necessary. Even if you have attended dissections, I believe you're going to need this book--the clarity is stunning, and it remembers what you can't. I have loads of anatomy books for artists and most consist of lovely anatomical drawings, usually pages of reproductions of masterworks, that are often only marginally useful when in the trenches of figuring out the why of a hand or the how of a knee. Da Vinci drew cadavers because he burned to "know" and art students are often reduced to studying drawings of another person's observations. Granted, this book won't provide dynamic poses (and the skeletal and muscular shifts that those poses create) but you WILL understand the form that creates the hand, the knee, the jaw. You will marvel at what you see.I know this review will not be of help to medical students, but if you are an artist who has stumbled onto this page, pondering this book, do yourself a tremedous favor and take the plunge.
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