Companion to Contemporary Drawing C
1st Edition
Published on 30. November 2020
Book
Hardback
576 pages
978-1-119-19454-5 (ISBN)
Description
The first university-level textbook on the power, condition, and expanse of contemporary fine art drawing
A Companion to Contemporary Drawing explores how 20th and 21st century artists have used drawing to understand and comment on the world. Presenting contributions by both theorists and practitioners, this unique textbook considers the place, space, and history of drawing and explores shifts in attitudes towards its practice over the years. Twenty-seven essays discuss how drawing emerges from the mind of the artist to question and reflect upon what they see, feel, and experience.
This book discusses key themes in contemporary drawing practice, addresses the working conditions and context of artists, and considers a wide range of personal, social, and political considerations that influence artistic choices. Topics include the politics of eroticism in South American drawing, anti-capitalist drawing from Eastern Europe, drawing and conceptual art, feminist drawing, and exhibitions that have put drawing practices at the centre of contemporary art. This textbook:
* Demonstrates ways contemporary issues and concerns are addressed through drawing
* Reveals how drawing is used to make powerful social and political statements
* Situates works by contemporary practitioners within the context of their historical moment
* Explores how contemporary art practices utilize drawing as both process and finished artifact
* Shows how concepts of observation, representation, and audience have changed dramatically in the digital era
* Establishes drawing as a mode of thought
Part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Companions to Art History series, A Companion to Contemporary Drawing is a valuable text for students of fine art, art history, and curating, and for practitioners working within contemporary fine art practice.
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Kelly Chorpening | Rebecca Fortnum
A Companion to Contemporary Drawing
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11/2020
1st Edition
Wiley
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Kelly Chorpening | Rebecca Fortnum
A Companion to Contemporary Drawing
E-Book
11/2020
1st Edition
Wiley
€176.99
Available for download
Persons
Kelly Chorpening is the Fine Art Programme Director at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London. She has worked extensively in drawing as an artist, writer, curator and educator within fine art and across disciplines, and in a number of national contexts.
Rebecca Fortnum is Professor of Fine Art at the Royal College of Art, UK. She is the author of Contemporary British Women Artists: In Their Own Words and On Not Knowing: How Artists Think. She has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at the Freud Museum and the V&A Museum of Childhood in London.
Content
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Kelly Chorpening and Rebecca Fortnum
The Power of Drawing
1 The Black Index
Bridget R. Cooks
2 A State of Alert: The Politics of Eroticism in South American Drawing
Sofia Gotti
3 Graphic Witness
Kate MacFarlane
4 Drawn from Communism: Anti-Capitalist Drawing from Central-Eastern Europe
Magdalena Radomska
5 Differencing Drawing: Feminist Perspectives on Line, Surface and Space
Griselda Pollock
6 A Dirty Double Mirror: Drawing, Autobiography and Feminism
Rebecca Fortnum
7 Between the Sky and the Handle: Shilpa Gupta's Drawings in the Contemporary
Parul Dave Mukherji
8 Drawing as Contagion
Jade Montserrat
9 Curating Drawing: Exhibitions and the Centering of Drawing In Contemporary Art
João Ribas
The Condition of Drawing
10 Observation and Drawing: From Looking to Seeing
Paul Moorhouse
11 Drawing's Impropriety
Lucian Massaert
12 Drawing in Atopia; an exploration of 'drift' as method
Beth Harland
13 Works on/and/with Paper: Approaching Drawing as Responsive Marking
Marina Kassianidou
14 Indexical Drawing: On Frottage
Margaret Iversen
15 Ground as Critical Limit
Laura Lisbon
16 Drawing's Finish
Stephanie Straine
17 Radical Antinomies: Drawing and Conceptual Art
Anna Lovatt
18 Drawing Desires
Sunil Manghani
19 Drawing from life in the 21st century art school
Kelly Chorpening
The Expanse of Drawing
20 Marking Time, Moving Images: Drawing and Film
Ed Kr ma
21 Digital Drawing
Tamarin Norwood
22 The dot and the line: Drawing Amongst Computers
Jane de Almeida
23 Installation/Drawing: spaces of drawing between art and architecture
Sophia Banou
24 Informational Drawing
Matthew Ritchie
25 Drawing Towards Sound - Notation, Diagram, Drawing
David Ryan
26 Chinese calligraphy: a drawing ecology
Eric Otto Wear
27 The Enduring Power of Comic Strips
Simon Grennan
Index