Constructive Anatomy

Countless artists and students since the 1920s have used this and other books by George B. Bridgman (For nearly 50 years a teacher at Art Students League in New York) for a solid foundation and understanding of human anatomy. They have found, and continue to find that his unique way of discovering vitalizing forces in the human form and realizing them in drawing carries the students pleasantly over one of art’s most severe hurdles.

Constructive Anatomy, an anatomical reference guide for the working artists, sculptor and student, graphically shows important parts of the human body, both in motion and in repose – hands, wrist, thumbs, fingers, forearms, armpits, arms, shoulders, neck, head, eyes, nose, ears, mouth, head, trunk (front, side and back), pelvis, hip, thighs, legs, knees, ankles, foot and toes. drawings of bones and muscles structures, of the working of the joints, and the interrelations of the various parts of the body, are mainly concerned with movements of all sorts – movements are described in details as well as illustrated. The bending, turning and twisting, creasing and interlocking of various parts of the body are represented in drawing as the wedging of masses in specific ways that are clearly defined by Mr. Bridgman.