Anatomy Books

[thesinfulsaint]

This topic has probably already been beaten to death, but I'm relatively new to this particular forum. :)

Does anyone have any reccommendations for great books for teaching anatomy? I really want to brush up on my figure skills over the summer before college, and I'm hoping to use a book as my guide since there aren't a whole lot of nude figure classes available to me. I have a really cheap-o "Anatomy for the Artist" book that a friend gave to me, but I really don't find the drawings inspiring.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

[dose]

Die Gestalt Des Menschens - Gottfried Bammes (nearly impossible to find in print, sometimes findable as a PDF online. Only in German but still probably the most in-depth anatomy book in recent history)
all the Bridgman books
Drawing Lessons From the Great Masters - Robert Beverly Hale
Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters - Robert Beverly Hale
Dynamic Anatomy - Hogarth
Dynamic Figure Drawing - Hogarth
Stuttura Uomo - Lolli, Zocchetta, Peretti (my friend has this- seems quite good. Only in Italian but still very good).

All those and more buried in here:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=22558

hope this helps...

[thesinfulsaint]

It definitely helps--thank you so much!

[Dizon]

I recommend Stephen Roger Peck's "Atlas of the Human Anatomy", Eliot Goldfinger's "Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form", and the english translated version of "Artistic Anatomy" by Paul Richer.