
Drawing. The Bottom Line
Yale University Press
Published on 12. November 2015
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-300-22009-4 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing. The Bottom Line presents the works of fifty-three artists from around the globe, all working within the medium of drawing and exploiting its versatile nature in a wide variety of ways. From brief sketches to fully realized and complex constructions, drawing provides the preliminary foundation for all of these works, whether they are simply functional process materials or products of careful consideration. This extensive survey features works from a wide range of prominent contemporary art figures, including Francis Alys, Paul McCarthy, Tacita Dean, Roni Horn, Gabriel Orozco, Raymond Pettibon, and many others, as well as written contributions and short introductory texts from dozens of renowned critical voices, many of which have been selected by the artists themselves. Furthermore, the volume contains a previously published essay by influential British writer John Berger. While drawing is often thought of as an incomplete or loosely defined form, this unique anthology and the varying practices of its participants help to demonstrate drawing's extraordinarily distinctive properties and nearly infinite possibilities, affirming its significance as an artistic language.
Distributed for Mercatorfonds
Exhibition Schedule:
SMAK
(10/10/15-01/31/16)
Distributed for Mercatorfonds
Exhibition Schedule:
SMAK
(10/10/15-01/31/16)
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
265 color illus.
Dimensions
Height: 305 mm
Width: 229 mm
Weight
1179 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-22009-4 (9780300220094)
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Persons
Martin Germann is senior curator and Philippe Van Cauteren is director at the S.M.A.K., Museum for Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium.