| Description |
xi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-282) and index. |
| Contents |
Setting the stage : the drawing studio and theater combined -- Artists and models -- Introduction to basic experimental tools and techniques -- Perceptual awareness -- Gesture, memory, and movement -- Basics of figure construction -- The building elements -- Principles -- Multifugure composition : from one to many -- Originality and influence -- Two major currents -- Carity and definition : seeing by the edge -- Interdeterminacy : seeing by the masses, blurring and dimming, and incomplettion -- Interdeterminacy : revealing by concealing -- The many faces of reality -- Realism -- Reality and distortion : expressionism -- Reality and abstraction -- Reality and fantasy -- Some challenging questions, some tentative conclusions. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Harry I. Naar, Professor Emeritus. |
| Subject |
Figure drawing -- Technique.
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Figure drawing -- Technique. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Hirschl, Milton, 1917- Creative figure drawing. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, ©1988 (OCoLC)622940631 |
| ISBN |
0131895729 (paperback) |
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9780131895720 (paperback) |
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