The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy

by Deanna Petherbridge and Ludmilla Jordanova

Book Overview

The human body has long been central to Western art, and in order to represent the body in all its manifestations many artists have studied anatomy: dissecting the dead to better depict the living.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520217381
• ISBN13: 9780520217386
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.7" x 8.7"