Duval's artistic anatomy

A concise, artist-focused manual distilled from lecture courses, presenting anatomy as a tool for drawing and modelling by beginning with the skeleton and explaining joint mechanics, muscular masses, and their effects on surface form and movement. It interleaves plates with explanatory text and urges hands-on study of bones, skeletons, casts, and living models to correlate deeper structures with visible contours. Practical demonstrations of motions such as forearm rotation illustrate underlying mechanisms. Short sections address facial angle and cranial form from an anthropological perspective. The aim is to sharpen observation and justify the why of visible forms.