The Book of a Hundred Hands

《手的绘画指南》

出版社 : Dover Publications; 第 Revised ed. 版 (1971年6月1日)

语言 : 英语

平装 : 192页

ISBN-10 : 9780486227092

ISBN-13 : 978-0486227092

商品重量 : 376 g

尺寸 : 16.56 x 1.24 x 23.47 cm

页面信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容信息

布里奇曼先生在导言中明确指出，在编写本书之前，他 "没有发现一本专门描写手的书"。显然，布里奇曼先生已经体会到了很少有人感受到的东西--人的手的巨大表现能力，以及艺术家为实现这种能力而必须采取的谨慎态度。手会随着人的年龄而变化，根据性别的不同而有不同的形状，反映出手所从事的工作类型、身体健康状况，甚至人的情绪。为了表现这些显著的特征，为了捕捉一双特殊的手的表现力，艺术家必须了解手的构造、解剖、形成和功能。

布里奇曼先生是一位备受尊敬的艺术家，近50年来一直在纽约艺术学生联盟讲学和授课，可能没有比他更适合的导师了。在本卷中，全文附有许多插图，几乎描绘了人的手的各个方面和姿势。他首先考虑的是手的后视图，腕骨、肌腱、肌肉、手骨、弓和血管；然后是手掌的那些部位。在整个过程中，他描绘了皮肤表面下工作的肌肉结构。他继续展示了大拇指一侧和小指一侧的肌肉是如何运作的，当每一个肌肉都是力的中心；大拇指和手指是如何构造的，它们的活动自由度、关节和完整的解剖结构，以及它们的直线、弯曲和屈曲的视图；指关节是如何形成的，拳头可以采取什么样的形状，以及它可以多么灵活；最后，他用图解说明了手在不同位置上的全部运动，无论是转动还是旋转。

Mr. Bridgman states unequivocally in his introduction that before preparing this book he had "not discovered a single volume devoted exclusively to the depicting of the hand." Apparently Mr. Bridgman has appreciated what few others have felt — the human hand's great capacity for expression and the care that the artist must take to realize it. The hand changes with the age of the person, is shaped differently according to sex, reflects the type of work to which it is put, the physical health, and even the emotions of the person. To represent these distinguishing features, to capture the expressiveness of a particular pair of hands, the artist must understand the construction, anatomy, formation, and function of the hand.

There is probably no better instructor to turn to for this understanding than Mr. Bridgman, a well-respected artist who for nearly 50 years lectured and taught at the Art Students League of New York. In this volume, a full text is accompanied by many illustrations depicting virtually every aspect and posture of the human hand. He first considers the back view of the hand, the wrist bones, the tendons, the muscles, the hand bones, the arch, and the veins; and then those of the palm. Throughout he pictures the musculature at work beneath the surface of the skin. He continues by showing how the muscles operate on the thumb side and on the little finger side when each is the center of force; how the thumb and fingers are constructed, their freedom of movement, joints, and complete anatomy as well as views of them straight, bent, and flexed; how the knuckles are formed, what shapes the fist can take and how flexible it can be; and he concludes with illustrations of the total movement, either turning or rotary, of the hand in its various positions.