Production Details:

Softback
176pp

Description:

Called "the perfect reference book" by Art News and Reviews, Stephen Rogers Peck's classic Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist has served for almost forty years as the standard manual for students exploring the intricacies of the human form. Atlas of Facial Expression expands upon the material in Peck's earlier book to provide a detailed guide to the complexities of facial expression.
Illustrated with fifty pages of drawings depicting musculature and facial expressions and sixteen pages of photographs of heads sculptured in clay, the book analyzes facial behavior, ranging from the sardonic smile to the lustful leer, from day-dreaming to screaming, from nausea to cold sweat, and more. Beginning with a look at facial behavior in infancy, such as the child crying out in discomfort or pouting in displeasure, Peck then considers facial behavior in adult situations, analyzing the facial expressions that reveal such feelings as animosity, alarm, and suffering. Artists, art students, actors, writers, and anyone else interested in the art of relating emotion to the physiology of the face will find this volume indispensable.