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Authors: Bruno Lucchesi, Margit Malmstrom
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Sales Rank: 80311

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
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Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.3 x 0.4

ISBN: 0823030962
Dewey Decimal Number: 730
EAN: 9780823030965

Publication Date: April 1, 1996
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exceptional December 29, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

both this and 'Modeling the Head in Clay' are the best books I've seen on the subject.

Highly recommended

5 out of 5 stars

spectacular ecorche course August 29, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

If you are a representational figurative sculptor, and want to learn how to build the human body from the inside out, you cannot have a clearer how-to with pictures treasure book. 360 degree and close-up views are included with each step.

Step by step, the master shows how to build the figure starting with the skeleton, and laying on each muscle, then fatty tissue and skin layer. Serious artists will benefit by getting a medical poseable skeleton, along with the 19th century classic "Artistic Anatomy" by Dr Paul Richer.

Study hard, and do the exercise like you were in class with the teacher. There are no shortcuts, however,the dedicated few will advance exponentially, but only by having the patience and discipline to follow through. It pays to know more rather than less.

5 out of 5 stars

I Wish I Could Give It Six Stars October 27, 2001
27 out of 27 found this review helpful

This book, along with the other titles in the series: "Modeling the Head in Clay" and "Terracotta," is an excellent resource for beginning sculptors. In fact, if I could buy only one book on sculpting, it would be one of these three (and most probably this one). The book is a walk-though of a single sculpture, which is instructive, but it is also a great reference. Mr. Lucchesi's style is realistic with natural poses, and quite pleasing -- it exudes peace and repose. Ms. Malmstrom has a gift for photographing and describing exactly those parts of the process most interesting to students. The medium is clay, and I'm working in wax, but I have not found this to be a problem. Be advised that it concentrates on the female figure, so an additional anatomy book may be helpful for proportioning male figures.

4 out of 5 stars

Amazing book - but not exactly what I thought... May 21, 2001
35 out of 38 found this review helpful

If this book was actually what I had been looking for, I would have given it 5 stars. However, it wasn't exactly what I had thought. It is not so much a "how-to" book as it is an illustrated diary of the artist's amazing process. This particular sculptor sculpts the entire skeleton, muscular system out to the finished sculpture you see on the front of the book. It's amazing but a little more detailed than I believe a beginner such as myself needs - I was a little daunted by the entire process but also quite in awe. The photographs are tremendous. This book would probably be better suited to students in advanced sculpture.

5 out of 5 stars

Anatomical approach to the human form April 7, 2000
46 out of 47 found this review helpful

Wow, what a book. I have been searching for the right book to help me build a human body that looked believable in sculpture and this is the one. Lucchesi creates the form by first creating an armature, then building a skeleton onto it (ribcage, pelvic girdle, etc.), then adding the muscles, then adding the skin. A must for anyone who would love to sculpt anatomy like Rodin and Michelangelo. Lucchesi's head book is just as good.

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