Figures, faces & folds
Subtitle: women's form and dress for artists, students and designers
By: Adolphe Armand Braun
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780486815923
Subjects: Women in art; Clothing and dress in art; Human figure in art; Drapery in art
Work titles: Figures, faces and folds
Description: "This magnificently illustrated art instruction manual ranges from classical to contemporary eras in its highly detailed historical overview of the depiction of women in drawings, paintings, sculpture, and photography. Black-and-white photographs, line drawings, and reproductions of paintings by Botticelli, Rubens, Vermeer, and other masters complement chapters on drapery studies, the anatomy of dress, standard poses, and other topics. Over 100 reference photos offer an additional resource for artists"--
Notes: "This Dover edition, first published in 2017, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published [under the title: Figures, faces and folds] by Bridgman Publishers, Inc., Pelham, New York, in 1928."--Title page verso.