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Basic Human Anatomy

An Essential Visual Guide for Artists

By: Roberto Osti

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Basic Human Anatomy

An Essential Visual Guide for Artists

By: Roberto Osti

A comprehensive, yet flexible and holistic approach to the human body for artists, Roberto Osti’s method of teaching anatomy is exhaustive, but never loses sight of the fact that this understanding should lead to the creation of art. Basic Human Anatomy teaches artists the simple yet powerful formula artists have used for centuries to draw the human figure from the inside out. Osti, using the basic system of line, shape, and form used by da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo, takes readers step-by-step through all the lessons needed in order to master this essential foundation skill. Organized progressively, the book shows readers how to replicate the underlying structure of the body using easy-to-understand scales and ratios; conceptualize the front and side views of the skeleton with basic shapes; add detail with simplified depictions of complex bones and joints; draw a muscle map of the body with volumetric form and realistic dimension; master the feet, hands, and skull to create realistic renderings of the human form; and apply a deeper knowledge of anatomy to finished drawings for more impact.

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The Monacelli Press, LLC

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1580934382

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9781580934381

Dynamic Human Anatomy

An Artist's Guide to Structure, Gesture, and the Figure in Motion

By: Roberto Osti

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Dynamic Human Anatomy

An Artist's Guide to Structure, Gesture, and the Figure in Motion

By: Roberto Osti

An essential visual guide for artists to the mastery and use of advanced human anatomy skills in the creation of figurative art. Dynamic Human Anatomy picks up where Basic Human Anatomy leaves off and offers artists and art students a deeper understanding of anatomy, including anatomy in motion, and how that essential skill is applied to the creation of fine figurative art.

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The Monacelli Press, LLC

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1580935516

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9781580935517

Dynamic Human Anatomy

An Artist's Guide to Structure, Gesture, and the Figure in Motion

By: Roberto Osti

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Dynamic Human Anatomy

An Artist's Guide to Structure, Gesture, and the Figure in Motion

By: Roberto Osti

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Silvestre Revueltas

Sounds of a Political Passion

By: Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus

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Silvestre Revueltas

Sounds of a Political Passion

By: Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus

To this day, both at home and beyond Mexico's borders, Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) has been systematically portrayed as a nationalist composer. Unknown or ignored, his private and public writings destroy this myth straight out. The then-fashionable musicking of a presumed Mexicanness was far from Revueltas' mind. Strongly inspired by the Soviet Revolution, his dream was to find ways to sound the voice of the social people, not only those wandering the Mexican streets but also the gypsy miners in Spain, the black slaves in the U.S. South, and those in Cuba in colonial times. The various soundings of such social actors account for the diversity of aesthetics in his works, explored in this book through a correlation of the musical texts with the composer's writings as well as his political activism: he was not only active at home as a leading member of the League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists, but also significantly as a member of the Mexican delegation visiting Republican Spain in the midst of the war against Franco's fascist troupes. With few exceptions, though, most of his works seek to transcend standards of political art expression, such as program music or scores variously linked to word or image. Significantly, Revueltas' early instrumental works appear to abstract a musical ontology from the time and space of his diverse and multiple social actors through a daringly free use of montage and collage. Avant-garde rebellion and satire are also present in his best-known late works. Revueltas's is a unique and provocative decolonial art that pokes fun at the cosmopolitanistic fantasies of his Eurocentric peers at home as well as exoticizing expectations abroad. Unveiling the sense behind Revueltas's irony and the form political passion takes on in his music is the intention behind Kolb-Neuhaus's hermeneutic approach, which intertwines Revueltian art with his writings and political actions"--

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Oxford University Press

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019975148X

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9780199751488

Mollichelle

By: Roberto Spagnuolo

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Mollichelle

By: Roberto Spagnuolo

Una raccolta di poemetti moderni in dialetto romanesco che raccontano, con la tipica flemma romanesca, di amori, di battaglie (Fratelli Cairoli, Giovanna d'Arco) e anche di esileranti macchiette moderne di uomini alla prese con le contraddizioni della vita.

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388

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Lulu.com

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129152679X

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9781291526790

Beauty and the Inferno

By: Roberto Saviano

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Beauty and the Inferno

By: Roberto Saviano

Roberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno also tackles universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency, and often with anger. This important collection includes essays on the legacy of the earthquake at L'Aquila, a town at risk of becoming overrun by mafia; on boxing as an escape route; on the life of the legendary South African jazz singer, Miriam Makeba; on an encounter with Salman Rushdie, and a tribute to Frank Miller, author of the graphic novel 300; on Michael Herr's Dispatches. One essay reflects on the aftermath of the publication of his book and subsequent film, Gomorrah, and how his life has been conditioned by the mafia's death threats, and the final essay in the collection celebrates the life of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

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280

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MacLehose Press

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ISBN 10

0857050095

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9780857050090

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