Modeling the Figure in Clay: A Sculptors Guide to Anatomy

Malmstrom, Margit;Lucchesi, Bruno

ISBN 10: 0823030970 / ISBN 13: 9780823030972

Published by New York, New York, U.S.A.: Watson-Guptill Pubns, 1980

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Large hardback in very good condition with good + condition dust jacket. Dust jacket is in mylar sleeve. Name on inside of front cover and on inside of back cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modeling the Figure in Clay: A Sculptors Guide to Anatomy
• Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A.: Watson-Guptill Pubns
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823030970
• ISBN 13: 9780823030972
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Bruno Lucchesi
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • art

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Synopsis

Master sculptor Bruno Lucchesi demonstrates the working sequence he follows in creating a figure in clay, starting with the skeleton, laying on muscles to show male and female anatomy, and finishing with a complete, detailed figure sculpture

About the Author

Bruno Lucchesi is perhaps best known for his smaller figures and is genre sculptures, but he also does major, large commissioned pieces. His sculptures have been added to the collections of the Whitney Museum of American ARt, The Brooklyn Museuem, the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, among others. He has received awards from the National Academy, which elected him Member in 1975, the National Arts Club, and the Architectural League, and he was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1962-63. Bruno lives in New York.