Studies in the Art Anatomy of Animals: Being a Brief Analysis of the Visible Forms of the More Familiar Mammals and Birds by Ernest Thompson Seton
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Studies in the Art Anatomy of Animals: Being a Brief Analysis of the Visible Forms of the More Familiar Mammals and Birds by Ernest Thompson Seton
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The book is an advocation of animal anatomy by the 19th-century wildlife artist Ernest Thompson Seton. He puts forth the idea that artists should learn the anatomical knowledge of animals with an equal attention of studying human anatomy, to treat animal subjects as humans with the physical accuracy in the sphere of art. For Seton, the dissection is not equivalent but an inferior method to the study of anatomy, while the anatomy delivers a more vivid rendering of animals. Birds anatomy is one of the topics in the book. Seton gives a particular attention to the depiction of features.
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