Anatomy in Art

About this book

A shoulder rises, a hand turns, a figure shifts its weight. For the sculptor Jonathan Scott Hartley, these ordinary movements explain why artists need to know what lies beneath the skin.

His study of artistic anatomy connects bone and muscle to the forms a draughtsman or modeller can actually see. Hartley places observation of the living body ahead of the memorisation of anatomical terms. A glimpse into the practical discipline behind portraits and sculpture, where even a small change of posture can alter the whole figure.