The undressed art why we draw amazonde steinhart peter fremdsprachige bucher wahlen sie ihre cookie einstellungen wir verwenden cookies und ahnliche tools um ihr einkaufserlebnis zu verbessern um unsere dienste anzubieten um zu verstehen wie die kunden unsere dienste nutzen damit wir verbesserungen vornehmen konnen und um werbung anzuzeigen. Undressed art is a book on everything that involves drawing nude human figures by naturalist and writer peter steinhart an amateur artist himself it concentrates mostly on figure sketching scene in america including the reasons to draw learning to draw in childhood and adulthood drawing in art institutes and in private and public groups nude modelling lives of artists both amateur and professional and history of drawing figure the world over for the last 2 3 centuries. Undressed art why we draw vintage amazonde steinhart peter fremdsprachige bucher wahlen sie ihre cookie einstellungen wir verwenden cookies und ahnliche tools um ihr einkaufserlebnis zu verbessern um unsere dienste anzubieten um zu verstehen wie die kunden unsere dienste nutzen damit wir verbesserungen vornehmen konnen und um werbung anzuzeigen. To draw is to understand what we see in the undressed art writer naturalist peter steinhart investigates the rituals struggles and joys of drawing reflecting on what is known about the brains role in the drawing process steinhart explores the visual learning curve how children begin to draw how most of them stop and what brings adults back to this deeply human art form later in life. We all draw as children we scrawl a sunbeamed circle for a face and dots for eyes and then we move on to portraits of mom with an upside down u for hair and dad with trousers up to his armpits but sooner or later almost everyone stops in this delightful revelatory book peter steinhart explores why some of us keep on drawing and what happens when we do