Reclining Figure

Crouching Man (stone), Andre Derain, 1907 The Newborn (marble), Constantin Brancusi, 1915 Princess X (marble), Constantin Brancusi, 1916 The Miracle (marble), Constantin Brancusi, 1924 Joie de Vivre (bronze), Jacques Lipchitz, 1927 Human Lunar Spectral (bronze), Jean Arp, 1957 Reclining Figure (stone), Henry Moore, 1929... 

We will use the convention of Organic Chemistry to depict the stereochemistry around a given atom. That means that the central atom and all other atoms connected to it by a straight solid line are in the plane of the paper, an atom connected by a solid wedge protrudes out of the plane (is situated in front of the paper) and an atom connected to the central atom by a dotted line reclines behind the plane (is situated behind the paper). This is illustrated in the following figures ... 

Figure 1. An opium den in London s East End with a reclining smoker being watched by a group of men. Engraving by A. Dorns after G. Dove. Wellcome Institute Library, London.

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