Recommended Books

Ambrus, Victor, How to Draw the Human Figure, Grange Books, 2006.
Aristides, Juliette, Classical Drawing Atelier: A Complete Course in Traditional Studio Practice, Watson-Guptill, 2006.
Ballestar, Vicenc B. & Sanmiguel, David, Figure in Watercolour, Batsford, 2001.
Barrett, Robert, Life Drawing: How to Portray the Figure with Accuracy and Expression, North Light Books, 2008.
Berger, John, Ways of Seeing, Penguin Books, 1972.
Bignamini, Ilaria & Postle Martin, The Artist’s Model: Its Role in British Art from Lely to Etty, University of Nottingham, 1991.
Borzello, Frances, The Artist’s Model, Junction Books, 1982.
Bowen, Ron, Drawing Masterclass, Leopard Books, 1995.
Bridgman, George B, Bridgman’s Complete Guide to Drawing from Life, Sterling, 1952.
Chicago, Judy & Lucie-Smith, Edward, Women and Art: Contested Territory, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999.
Clark, Kenneth, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form, John Murray, 1956.
Cuthbert, David, Figures: Lessons & Exercises to Develop Your Painting & Drawing Techniques, Chartwell Books, 1994.
De Louville, Francois & Lucie-Smith, Edward, The Male Nude: A Modern View : an Exhibition, Phaidon, 1985.
Dijkstra, Bram, Naked: The Nude in America, Rizzoli, 2010.
Dobkin, Alexander, Principles of Figure Drawing, The World Publishing Company, 1948.
Duby, Georges & Perrot, Michelle, Power & Beauty: Images of Women in Art, Tauris Parke Books, 1992.
Eisler, Georg, From Naked to Nude: Life Drawing in the Twentieth Century, Morrow, 1977.
Ferrara, Lidia Guibert, Reclining Nude, Chronicle Books, 2002.
Franck, Frederick, Life Drawing Life: On Seeing/Drawing the Human, Great Ocean Publishers, 1989.
Garb, Tamar, Bodies of Modernity: Figure and Flesh in Fin-de-siècle France, Thames & Hudson, 1998.
Gill, Michael, Image of the Body: Aspects of the Nude, Doubleday, 1989.
Hale, Robert Beverly, Drawing Lessons From The Great Masters, Watson-Guptill, 1964.
Hobhouse, Janet, The Bride Stripped Bare: Artist and the Nude in the Twentieth Century, Jonathan Cape, 1988.
Levy, Mervyn, The Human Form in Art: The Appreciation and Practice of Figure Drawing and Painting, Odham Books, 1968.
Lucie-Smith, Edward, Adam: The Male Figure in Art, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998.
Lucie-Smith, Edward, Body: Images of the Nude, Thames & Hudson, 1981.
Nead, Lynda, The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity, and Sexuality, Routledge, 1992.
Nochlin, Linda, Representing Women, Thames & Hudson, 1999.
Postle, Martin & Vaughan, William, The Artist’s Model from Etty to Spencer, Merrel Holberton, 1999.
Raynes, John, Figure Drawing & Anatomy for the Artist, Bounty Books, 2005.
Ryder, Anthony, The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing: A Contemporary Perspective on the Classical Tradition, Watson-Guptill, 1999.
Saunders, Gill, The Nude: A New Perspective, The Herbert Press, 1989.
Saxton, Colin, Art School: An Instructional Guide Based on the Teaching of Leading Art Colleges, Macmillan, 1981.
Smith, Stan & Wheeler Linda, Drawing and Painting the Figure, Phaidon, 1983.
Stanton, Jane, The Art of Figure Drawing, Crescent Books, 1989.
Stanyer, Peter & Rosenberg, Terry, Life Drawing from First Principles, Arcturus, 1996.
Walters, Margaret, The Nude Male: A New Perspective, Paddington Press, 1978.