Hieroglyphic or Greek Method of Life Drawing

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Hieroglyphic or Greek Method of Life Drawing
Published in 1916.
From the Table of Contents.

TEXT Preface The Art-Master’s Dilemma The Correct View The Complexity of Art Education A Gradual Method Practice does not impart knowledge Drawing as Nature Worship Why the name Hieroglyphic? Life Drawing as an Experimental Study Obvious, but The ever fresh Ancient Greeks Gymnastic Beauty A glorious usage Greek syntheticism The reason why What the Greeks knew and thought Undress Yourself The contrivance of joints, muscles and bones A revolutionary theory on muscular action Flexors and extensors The relation of muscles to joints and bones How the system is shielded from shock Feel your bones As bow and arrow Observing athletic performances Greek musculation Repose analysed Action analysed Balance in repose Balance in action Dissecting the act of walking Your mirror and yourself Bonnet strings (sterno mastoid) Breast and chest muscle (pectorals major and minor) Great Indented (serratus magnus) Crescent shaped (or lower) blade muscle (teres major) Hood muscle (trapezius) Waist muscle (external oblique Straight abdominal (rectus abdominis Straight thigh, Nelson, Napoleon (rectus femoris, vastus internus, vastus externus) Hamstrings Band-muscle (fascia lata) Twin-muscles of calf (gastrocnemius) Soleus Extensors of toes Flexors of toes The Arm exhaustively explained Wrist and hand Proportions On selecting a model General hints on figure drawing Posing the Model Please excuse me The Art of Posing, an essay by Dorothy Lees A stimulus to the study of beautiful curves, a letter by H. Langford Davis Comments on the poses photographed, with compositions by W. Champneys and L. C. Bruno Some Hieroglyphic Rflections by H. R. Millar Turning Photographs into Pictures, by W. Champneys The Photographic Basis, by Bernard Foster Stokes The Photograph as an aid to Drawing, by H. R. Millar A Pen Drawing from a Photograph, by H. R. Millar Short list of useful modern books Anatomy, by E. Hesketh Hubbard An Art Master on the Hieroglyphic Greek method of Life Drawing Health and Beauty Exercises Hands, Female Arm, Male Arms, Feet, Male Legs, Eyes, Mouths, Noses, Ears

ILLUSTRATIONS Cover by L. C. Bruno Hieroglyphic Design by G. Langdale Photogravure Initial letter by L. C. Bruno Laocoon statue Laocoon diagram The Wrestlers, statue The Wrestlers, diagram Bones affecting surface form Female torso, Orestes and Electra, Venus of Milo, diagrams, lay figures Skeleton, front view Mucles Skeleton, side view Muscles Skeleton, back view Muscles Physiological diagrams Diagrams to aid the memory Large bones of body and shouldr-blade Foot and hand Chest and shoulder-muscles Great indented, hood and corset-muscle Back, waist, and abdominal muscles Arm muscles Leg muscles Niobe, Disc-thrower, Orpheus, Eurydice and Mercury, Venus of Milo, Greek votive disc, Athlete and Strigil, Myron’s Discobolus Figures in violent action Rapid sketches by A. A. Braun whole figure hands heads and feet Figures divided into eight heads Diagrams to construct Miss Dorothy Lees’ head figure Lines of beauty derived from various poses Algebraic curves Line compositions by H. R. Millar Line drawings of poses, anatomatically analysed Compositions by W. Champneys Compositions by L. C. Bruno Hieroglyphic Composition by H. R. Millar Rough Layout Caricature by David Wilson Photographs and line sketches to illustrate: The Photographic Basis by Bernard Foster Stokes Praxiteles Venus, Vatican, Rome La Baigneuse, photograph Line drawing from La Baigneuse photo graph by H. R. Millar Health exercises illustrations References by Edgar D. Cooke: Feet Male legs Ears Hands Female arms Male arms Eyes Mouths Noses Line drawing of Chansons Fléroiques by G. M. Ellwood

A valuable study guide for anyone interested in life drawing.
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