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Animal Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form Illustrated Edition

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From the author of the classic Human Anatomy for Artists comes this user-friendly reference guide featuring over five hundred original drawings and over seventy photographs.
Designed for painters, sculptors, and illustrators who use animal imagery in their work, Animal Anatomy for Artists offers thorough, in-depth information about the most commonly depicted animals, presented in a logical and easily understood format for artists--whether beginner or accomplished professional. The book focuses on the forms created by muscles and bones, giving artists a crucial three-dimensional understanding of the final, complex outer surface of the animal. Goldfinger not only covers the anatomy of the more common animals, such as the horse, dog, cat, cow, pig, squirrel, and rabbit, but also the anatomy of numerous wild species, including the lion, giraffe, deer, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, elephant, gorilla, sea lion, and bear. Included are drawings of skeletons and how they move at the joints, individual muscles showing their attachments on the skeleton, muscles of the entire animal, cross sections, photographs of live animals, and silhouettes of related animals
comparing their shapes and proportions. He offers a new and innovative section on the basic body plan of four-legged animals, giving the reader a crucial conceptual understanding of overall animal structure to which the details of individual animals can then be applied. The chapter on birds covers the skeleton, muscles and feather patterns. The appendix presents photographs of skulls with magnificent horns and antlers and a section on major surface veins.
Incredibly thorough, packed with essential information, Animal Anatomy for Artists is a definitive reference work, an essential book for everyone who depicts animals in their art.

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0195142144
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978-0195142143
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Illustrated
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Oxford University Press
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November 15, 2004
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English
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12.3 x 0.89 x 9.3 inches
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256 pages
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Goldfinger, author of Human Anatomy for Artists (1991), stresses that bodies have specific volumes created by anatomical structures, and he reveals how the interrelationship of muscles and bones determines shape and proportion. His straightforward guide starts with animal classification and a listing of nonmedical terminology and then explicates the "basic body plan." Detailed line drawings, black-and-white photographs, and silhouettes, as well as explanations of skeletons, emphasize the functions of various body portions such as lower leg and shoulder joint, and Goldfinger thoroughly depicts individual muscles before progressing to elaborate side views and cross sections of complete anatomies. Feathers, horns, and antlers are treated separately with both diagrams and photos before the text concludes with a brief overview of the venous system. Many will find especially useful the extensive, multimedia, annotated bibliography. This technical treasure is sure to find an audience among artists and serious animal enthusiasts alike. Whitney Scott
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"The definitive reference guide on the subject."--American Artist

"This technical treasure is sure to find an audience among artists and serious animal enthusiasts alike."--Booklist

"An excellent tool for beginner or master painter, sculptor, or illustrator."--Art Times

"The work of artist Eliot Goldfinger combines scientific rigor with aesthetic discrimination. In its wide scope and copious detail, his new book on animal anatomy is an invaluable reference for anyone intent on the vivid depiction of animal life, including painters, sculptors and animators. Artistic anatomy has fallen on hard times in recent years; no one has done more to bring it out of the doldrums--with this book and its predecessor on human anatomy--than Eliot Goldfinger."--Gary Faigin, Artist; Co-founder and Artistic Director of the Seattle Academy of fine Arts; Instructor of anatomy, painting and drawing; Author of The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression

"Animal Anatomy for Artists is an essential reference for any artist working with animals. It provides remarkably extensive material on the horse, cow, lion, and dog, and strong basic material on numerous other species, domestic and exotic. Goldfinger presents material that is not available in any other anatomy book in print. I, and many of my colleagues familiar with his excellent and important text, Human Anatomy for Artists, are fortunate to have this book for our use as well as that of our students. Animal Anatomy for Artists is an exciting and major addition to the literature of art education."--David Klass, Artist; Instructor in animal and human anatomy at the New York Academy of Art in New York City and the Loveland Academy of Fine Arts in Loveland, Colorado

"While this book is indeed useful to artists, Animal Anatomy for Artists is so much more than an anatomy reference book--it is Eliot Goldfinger's graphic celebration of the wonders and intricacies of animal anatomy, a visual testimony to his consummate skill as an anatomist and an artist. To appreciate the way the animals are put together, use this book, and along the way, marvel at the depth and range of its author."--Richard Ellis, Natural history painter and writer; Author and illustrator of Great White Shark, Aquagenesis, and The Empty Ocean

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; Illustrated edition (November 15, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0195142144
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195142143
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.3 x 0.89 x 9.3 inches

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deadchristmastrees

Not just for the artist!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 14, 2011

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Wow! I was completely blown away when this book arrived in the mail! I purchased this book for a course I'm taking in college that is basically an intro anatomy and evolution class but uses a lot of sketching and animation to teach these things. I wasn't too enthusiastic about the art portion of this course and was less than thrilled about having to buy a $40 book on drawing animals....or so I thought.

When this book arrived I was pleasantly surprised! It was EXTREMELY detailed and every muscle was painstakingly labelled. This book isn't a 'how to draw...' book, although it does have a lot of that. The beginning has a lot of info about body plans and proportions. While these first chapters have a lot of tips and help for artist, its basically assumed that the reader can already draw or has a general understanding of how to shape an animal. You wont find any basic steps on drawing or sketching. Goldfinger is really clear in his explanations and gets you to look at the structure of a body in a very simple, easy to understand way.

The majority of the book is of diagrams of the muscle and bone structure of different species. I'm not just talking cats, dogs, and horses either! This book has full, completely labelled and correctly proportioned diagrams of everything from lions and seals to hippos and lizards. Every single one has all or a majority of its muscles labeled. The more common animals are even more detailed in there being various views and closeups of certain areas.

I have almost no qualms about this book but I will point out a few things. First, if your more interested in skeletal anatomy this may not be the best book. Most of the concentration is on muscles since, i guess, that's more significant to an artist looking to draw these creatures. There are skeletal diagrams of the more common animals so its not completely lacking in that sense. The other issue I had was in the way muscles were labeled although I don't know of any other way the author could have done it. Basically every muscle was labeled with an abbreviation and then at the bottom of the page is a key in which the abbreviations and their meanings are listed alphabetically. This made learning the muscles kind of tedious and confusing but honestly, with ALL those muscles to label, I don't see any other way of doing it.

Originally, I planned on keeping this book in perfect shape so I could resell it at the end of the semester but Im most definitely keeping it! There are endless ways that this book could help me in the future. I recommend it for ANYONE wanting to learn more about animal anatomy. Not just artists. I've had other anatomy textbooks that aren't even this thorough.

THE BEST BOOK PURCHASE I'VE MADE ALL YEAR!!!

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John Bellucci

Animal Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 28, 2012

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Animal Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form, was recommended by a friend and fellow Taxidermist from South Africa. I thought I had all I needed in the way of animal anatomy books, and as a veteran Taxidermist of some 45 years experience, I thought I had much in the way of mammal anatomy figured out. Well, I do, but this book is like looking at one of my favorite subjects with 'fresh eyes'! What a superb addition to any Animal Artists library.

No matter what your medium ... oils, watercolor, pencil, clay, crayon, or yes even Taxidermy ... this book will be a huge benefit to anyone striving to learn more about their favorite subjects of the Animal Kingdom! There are more mammalian species covered in detail in this book than in any other. And the breakdown of individual muscles is as I have never seen before. The author Eliot Goldfinger has really delved deep beneath the skin of actual specimens to bring this treatment of the subject of animal anatomy to life!

Each new chapter is prefaced with a small amount of descriptive text regarding the subject being handled, but does not go too deeply into their natural history and habits ... something not required when interest in the anatomical study is all that is required. There are a plethora of books out there that concern themselves with the Natural History of a particular animals life.

This book does what one wants ... explains and illustrates mammalian anatomy as no other single volume has done before. And I applaud Mr. Goldfinger for his efforts! This book is a very welcome addition to my library, and I am certain it will be welcomed into yours.

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Monica Couvrette

Great book - but was damaged upon arrival

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 18, 2020

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The book itself is beautiful and brilliant and everything it's supposed to be.
However, I paid full price for a new copy only to have it arrive with a number of blemishes. If it weren't a very large and very expensive book this would upset me less. All of the damage is to the dust jacket and it's enough that it should have been sold used. I'm trying to figure out how to send the seller a message to see if they can help address this with a discount or something. It's too close to Christmas to be able to exchange it. Le sigh

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Brian C. Maloney

Depicts Mostly Mammals, but Does It Very Well

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 17, 2016

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I'm very pleased with the variety of mammals whose skeletons and musculatures are depicted in this book. However, this reference guide contains the skeletal and muscular systems of only one species of bird: the chicken. I'd suppose this would be an adequate guideline for many related birds - the grouse, the turkey, the pheasant, the peafowl, etc. (depending on what type of sculpture the artistic user is making, and on how much photo reference they have in front of them). Of course, the book doesn't display anatomical renderings of figures from any of the other vertebrate animal classes (fish, amphibians, and reptiles).

I have learned information I didn't know before, even having read far less than the whole book (as of August 16, 2016). I'm sure I'll discover more and more new-to-me knowledge as I continue to use the book. I would definitely recommend this piece of reference material to any artist, especially if their favorite class of vertebrates is Mammalia.

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