Animal Anatomy for Artists

Library Bookwatch, June, 2005

Animal Anatomy For Artists

Eliot Goldfinger

Oxford University Press

198 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10016-4314

www.oup-usa.org

0195142144 $50.00 1-800-451-7556

Artists who plan on focusing on animals had better pick up a copy of Animal Anatomy For Artists: The Elements Of Form: a virtual 'Bible' of animal anatomy, is features over five hundred original drawings and over seventy photos which painters, sculptors, and illustrators can use to understand the underlying anatomy of a range of common and wild animals. Forms created by muscles and bones provide artists with a three-dimensional figure of the final surface of the animal, while Goldfinger provides discussions of how each piece of animal anatomy interacts with another.