ANATOMY FOR THE ARTIST **Cased Edition**

Drawings and text by Jeno Barcsay. Over-large hardcover edition with dust jacket in slipcover, being the seventh impression published by Spring Books, London in 1968. This superb art manual is the best guide available on a subject that has fascinated artists for the human body. Jenö Barcsay, a professor who taught applied anatomy at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts, offers a detailed portrayal of the body for the fine artist in 142 full-page plates. From the entire skeleton and the joints in and out of motion to all the muscles and even facial characteristics, every body part appears in close-up and from varying perspectives. Accompanying the images are brief discussions of male and female anatomical construction, explaining precisely the articulations and movement of the foot, the arm, the trunk, the spinal column, and the skull. In many cases, two sketches appear side by one just lightly traced in, and marked with letters to show how proportions and perspective were figured, and another fully finished drawing.