Human Proportions for Artists (abridged)

Human Proportions for Artists (abridged) - Paperback

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Human Proportions for Artists (abridged) - Paperback

Human Proportions for Artists (abridged) - Paperback

by Avard T. Fairbanks Dfa , Eugene F. Fairbanks
$43.20
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Book Overview

by Avard T. Fairbanks Dfa (Author), Eugene F. Fairbanks (Author)

"Human Proportions for Artists" discusses human proportions and includes profuse illustrations and tables of about 120 representative human measurements of both male and female figures in inch and metric dimensions for comparison from heroic size to 1/12 life size with 10 sizes in between. This 192 page abridged version for print-on-demand is slightly fewer pages than the first edition (which is still available in spiral bound at $38, as well as hard cover at $58). This book is of particular interest to students and serious amateurs. Chapters on: Historic Review of Human Proportions; Comparative and Relative Proportions; Anatomic Ratio Measurements in Human Proportions; Features of Hands and Feet; plus Symmetry and Dynamic Symmetry.

Author Biography

Avard T. Fairbanks, BFA, MFA, MA, PhD, DFA (Honorary) Posthumous author. Taught at five different universities and created more than 100 public monuments. His professional career spanned 1911 to 1987. and Eugene F. Fairbanks, BA, MD. The son of Avard T. Fairbanks utilized his studies of human proportions for a doctoral thesis and expanded on them for practical guide for figurative artists. He has recently published "Children's Proportions for Artists," a companion piece to this book. He also created a heroic monument on Bellingham Bay honoring fishermen who were lost in pursuit of their profession.

Number of Pages: 196
Dimensions: 0.42 x 11.02 x 8.5 IN
Publication Date: November 08, 2011
ISBN9781467901871
Author Avard T. Fairbanks Dfa , Eugene F. Fairbanks
PublisherCreatespace Independent Publishing Platform
GenreArts
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages196
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Eugene F. Fairbanks

Avard T. Fairbanks created nearly 100 public monuments and many other fine masterpieces of art during his career as a professional sculptor spanning more than 75 years. Among these, a significant number were of Abraham Lincoln for locations throughout the United States. Eugene F. Fairbanks, the second son of Maude and Avard T. Fairbanks, was born in 1921 in Eugene, Oregon, while sculptor Fairbanks was teaching art at the University of Oregon. Eugene chose to study medicine. With Dr. Charles J. Flora, he co-authored a marine biology species identification handbook in 1966 and 1977, The Sound And The Sea. His first book about Avard Fairbanks' sculpture, A Sculptor's Testimony In Bronze And Stone (1972 and 1994), featured sacred sculpture. In 1995 he was asked to create a monument honoring fishermen of Bellingham lost at sea. During spare moments in the practice of medicine, Eugene composed poetry to complement his father's fantasy sculpture. He has collected photographs and made many enlargements of Fairbanks' sculpture for this and other projected publications. In 2001 he published A Sculpture Garden of Fantasy, featuring the fantasy sculpture of Avard Fairbanks. His other books include Human Proportions for Artists and Children's Proportions for Artists. Creating a Portrait in Sculpture is an illustrated book on Avard Fairbanks' technique of modeling portraits.

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