Atlas of Facial Expression

by Stephen Rogers Peck

Called "the perfect reference book" by Art News and Reviews , Stephen Rogers Peck's classic Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist has served for almost forty years as the standard manual for students exploring the intricacies of the human form. The beautifully illustrated Atlas of Facial
Expression expands upon the material in Peck's earlier book to provide a detailed guide to the complexities of facial expression.
Illustrated with fifty pages of drawings depicting musculature and facial expressions and sixteen pages of photographs of heads sculptured in clay, the book analyzes facial behavior, ranging from the sardonic smile to the lustful leer, from day-dreaming to screaming, from nausea to cold sweat,
and more. Artists, art students, actors, writers, and anyone else interested in the art of relating emotion to the physiology of the face will find this volume indispensable.

Genres: Reference, Art

176 pages, Paperback

First published February 26, 1987

Reviews

[A Crawley · Rating 3 out of 5]

While he has several interesting insights regarding the origin and function of some facial actions as the protection of the eyes, the preparedness to cry or scream, and a few more, it goes too much on the analysis of emotions while assuming prototipic displays for several of them with some doubious explanations. Some appreciations really are worthy, others are shallow and simplistic.