Detailed -- and disappointing. There are too many written
descriptions, too many line drawings, too much wasted space (large
margins, half-blank pages) and not enough photographs. The first
photograph appears on page 65. Prior to that, over half the pages are
primarily, or entirely, text. A randomly selected passage (p. 37):
"The tibial platform is divided into medial and lateral condyles.
Their top surfaces have elongated shallow facets. These facets
articulate with the medial and lateral condyles of the femur..."
Much of the text throughout the entire book is of this type.
Other
minuses include the paucity of body positions, and the dearth of
ethnicities and body types. Although the body PARTS are seen from the
front, back, and side, there are no bodies DOING anything. There are
no old people, no children, no fat people, no thin people, and except
for one light-skinned black man, no people of races other than
Caucasian. There is very little depiction of male and female
differences, although there is some descriptive text of them.
While
the book description says it includes genitalia, there is extremely
little of it -- hardly enough to mention. There is one photo of a
circumcised penis from the front, and one from the side; and the same
of an uncircumcised one. There are two frontal views of the
"female pubic region", one shaved and one unshaved, both
with legs tightly together. All of these photos are on one page, and
that is the extent of the "genitalia", unless you want to
include the page with female breasts. This page has four photos:
female breasts from the the front, in 3/4 profile, and from overhead,
and one male nipple. Oh yes -- genitalia is also included in the two
pages (only two!) of full body photographs. These two pages contain
eight photos, four male and four female. Each sex is seen from the
front, back, 3/4 front profile and 3/4 back profile. (These same
views are given of a male head, but there are no corresponding photos
of a female head.)
The book goes through the body part by part, the
usual format being one page of illustrations facing a page with
corresponding descriptive text. The illustrations usually include a
drawing of the underlying skeletal structure of the body part under
investigation, and next to it two more drawings, one of which adds
just one muscle, while the other adds the entire muscle group; finally
there is a photograph of the part. The photographs are rather small,
often less than an inch and a half wide. (Many of the margins are two
and a half inches wide.)
One plus is the 39 pages devoted to facial
expressions, although, again, more than half of these pages are
text-only (again with large margins and lots of blank space), and even
the pages of illustration contain only one or two expressions per
page, usually a front and a side view of the same expression, in the
usual format of skeleton + muscle drawings + photograph.
This is not
really a bad book, just not worth the money. I wouldn't have bought
it if I had examined it first. A better choice for the working artist
(especially if s/he is anywhere near the "starving"
category) would be Stephan Rogers Peck's "Atlas of Human Anatomy
for the Artist". Peck's book ... has much of the same
information as the ... Goldfinger book, and includes many useful
features not found in the more expensive book. Check out the reader
reviews on it!
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