The Book of a Hundred Hands (Dover Anatomy for Artists)

The Book of a Hundred Hands (Dover Anatomy for Artists)

Language: English

Pages: 192

ISBN: 048622709X

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Mr. Bridgman states unequivocally in his introduction that before preparing this book he had "not discovered a single volume devoted exclusively to the depicting of the hand." Apparently Mr. Bridgman has appreciated what few others have felt — the human hand's great capacity for expression and the care that the artist must take to realize it. The hand changes with the age of the person, is shaped differently according to sex, reflects the type of work to which it is put, the physical health, and even the emotions of the person. To represent these distinguishing features, to capture the expressiveness of a particular pair of hands, the artist must understand the construction, anatomy, formation, and function of the hand.
There is probably no better instructor to turn to for this understanding than Mr. Bridgman, a well-respected artist who for nearly 50 years lectured and taught at the Art Students League of New York. In this volume, a full text is accompanied by many illustrations depicting virtually every aspect and posture of the human hand. He first considers the back view of the hand, the wrist bones, the tendons, the muscles, the hand bones, the arch, and the veins; and then those of the palm. Throughout he pictures the musculature at work beneath the surface of the skin. He continues by showing how the muscles operate on the thumb side and on the little finger side when each is the center of force; how the thumb and fingers are constructed, their freedom of movement, joints, and complete anatomy as well as views of them straight, bent, and flexed; how the knuckles are formed, what shapes the fist can take and how flexible it can be; and he concludes with illustrations of the total movement, either turning or rotary, of the hand in its various positions.
The 100 illustrations the author has selected perfectly define the regions of the hand so that any artist, beginning or experienced, will increase his mastery of it. Better rendering of the human hand is sure to add new expressiveness to your human figures along with new forcefulness and new interest.

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but in a succession of generations it may be cumulative. Also it happens that it is the more superficial and conspicuous parts that are thus modified. On the background of the mechanics, then, which is older than the human race, we may have racial variations; then on this basis, accumulated hereditary or family modifications, and on them in turn expressions of individual history and character. The hand of the child is almost unmodified. With its creases and dimples and its tapering fingers, it

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under the hand to about the centre, where it is invisible from the back except a curved root. It may bend out to about a right angle. It bends back very slightly if at all, except at the tip. Between thumb and palm, as also on the back, a roll of flesh may be raised by pressure of the thumb, and is drawn into a thin curved blade when stretched. FINGERS SECTIONAL VIEW—First finger between knuckle and second joint. SECTIONAL VIEW—Between second and third joint. SECTIONAL VIEW—Last joint at nail.

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