A Companion to Contemporary Drawing
1st Edition
Published on 10. November 2020
550 pages
978-1-119-19457-6 (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 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 The V&A Museum of Childhood in London.
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List of Illustrations
0.1 Kelly Chorpening (2019) A Quiet Interior. Pencil and acrylic on paper mounted to steel 77 × 65 × 64 cm. Source: Courtesy of Kelly Chorpening. 0.2 'Phantom Limn' residency at Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, 2017, Source: courtesy of Kelly Chorpening. 0.3 Frank Auerbach (1990) from Seven Portraits, Michael. Etching on paper Dimensions: image: 178 × 147 mm © Tate, London 2019. 0.4 John and Yves Berger drawing at Camberwell College, University of the Arts London, 2007. Source: Courtesy of Craig Dow. 0.5 Rebecca Fortnum (2013), Eyes Wide Shut (Billie). Pencil, wax and oil on paper, 2013 Each image 70 × 100 cm. Source: Courtesy Rebecca Fortnum. 1.1 Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle (2016) The Evanesced. India ink and watercolour on recycled paper. Each 30.5 × 22.9 cm (12 × 9 inches). Source: Courtesy the artist. Photo: Michael Underwood. 1.2 Titus Kaphar (2015) The Jerome Project (Asphalt and Chalk) XV. Chalk on asphalt paper, 124.5 × 91.4 cm (49 × 36 inches). Fund for the Twenty-First Century. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A. © Titus Kaphar. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY. Courtesy of the artist. 1.3 Whitfield Lovell (2006-2011) The Card Series II: The Rounds. 54 cards, charcoal pencil on paper with attached playing card. Each 30.5 × 22.9 cm (12 × 9 inches). Source: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, exhibition: Walter Larrimore/NMAAHC. © Whitfield Lovell. Reproduced with permission. 1.4 Whitfield Lovell (2006-2011) The Card Series II: The Rounds (Detail card X). Charcoal pencil on paper with attached playing card. 30.5 × 22.9 cm (12 × 9 inches). Source: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture © Whitfield Lovell. Reproduced with permission. 2.1 Anna Bella Geiger (1978) Equac¸o~es, série De Rerum Artibus (Equations, De Rerum Artibus series). Graphite, frottage and crayons on lined notebook sheet. 24 × 33 cm. © Anna Bella Geiger. 2.2 Teresinha Soares (1970) Corpo a Corpo in Cor-pus Meus (Body to Body in Colour-Pus of Mine). Painted wood. Dimensions variable. © Teresinha Soares. 2.3 Nahum B. Zenil (1996) ¡Oh, Santa Bandera! (a Enrique Guzma´n) (Oh, Saint Flag! - To Enrique Guzma´n). Triptych. Mixed media on paper. 238 × 71.5 cm. Coleccio´n MUAC, UNAM. 2.4 Miguel Angel Rojas (1975) ATENAS C.C. (Cine Contiguo #1-4) (ATENAS CC - Contiguous Cinema #1-4). Graphite on paper. 90 × 69 cm. © Miguel Angel Rojas. 2.5 Jose´ Leonilson Bezerra Dias (1990) Favorite game. Permanent ink on paper. 21 × 13.5 cm. Source: Photo: Rubens Chiri / © Projeto Leonilson. 3.1 Lorna Simpson (2008) Bed Green. Graphite and ink on paper. 27.9 × 21.6 cm (11 × 8.5 inches). Source: © Lorna Simpson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth 3.2 Catherine Anyango Grünewald (2015) Live, Moments ago (The Death of Mike Brown, Ferguson, 9.8.14). Film still. Source: © Catherine Anyango Grünewald. Courtesy the artist. 3.3 Nidhal Chamekh (2017) Calais, studies and fragments of memories. Graphite and transfer on cotton paper. 100 × 140 cm (39.3 × 55.1 inches). Source: © Collection Frac Centre-Val de Loire. Photography: Blaise Adilo. 3.4 Andrea Bowers (2015) Badass Girls (May Day, Los Angeles 2014), detail. Graphite on paper, 62 × 43 cm (24.4 × 16.9 inches). Source: © Andrea Bowers. Courtesy the artist and kaufmann repetto, Milan / New York. Photo: Andrea Rossetti. 3.5 Mounira Al Solh (2012-ongoing) I Strongly Believe in Our Right to Be Frivolous. Mixed media on legal paper. Each 30 × 21 cm (11.8 × 8.2 inches). Source: The Art Institute of Chicago. © Mounira Al Solh. Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut / Hamburg. 4.1 Tamas St.Turba/Tama´s Szentjo´by (2012) We're Not Talented Enough (Banner-plot). Drawing, India ink on paper, 15.1 × 21.3 cm. Source: Courtesy of Tama´s Szentjo´by. 4.2 Ja´nos Suga´r (2003) Oneway Design. Ready made (pair of workers gloves with palmistry lines). Source: Courtesy of Ja´nos Suga´r. 4.3 Lukasz Surowiec (2015) "Daddy, don't cry. Zosia". Painting on the wall, drawing of miner's daughter transferred onto the wall of family house, Katowice. Photo: Dawid Chalimoniuk, Courtesy of Lukasz Surowiec, Davido/Katowice City of Gardens. 4.4 GLUKLYA /Natalia Pershina-Jakimanskaya, formerly: Factory of Found Clothes (2010) Against the commercial shit. Drawing for the Chto Delat newspaper issue Tragedy or Farce. Source: Courtesy of GLUKLYA /Natalia Pershina-Jakimanskaya. 4.5 Fokus Grupa (2011 - ongoing) I Sing to Pass the Time. Pencil on paper. Source: Courtesy of Fokus Grupa. 4.6 Marina Naprushkina and the Office for Antipropaganda (2012) Self#governing. Page from the Newspaper. Source: Courtesy of Marina Naprushkina and the Office for Antipropaganda. 5.1 Christine Taylor Patten (2007) Imagine5 (to the Fifth Power). Crow quill and ink on paper, 56 × 261.6 cm. (Photograph Daniel Barsotti) with 24/2000 micros, between 1355 AD and 1382 AD. Crow quill and ink on paper, 2.5 × 2.5 cm. Source: Courtesy the artist. 5.2 Eva Hesse No title. (1969) Gouache, watercolor, silver ink and graphite on laid paper, 22 1/8 × 15 inches (56.2 × 38.1 cm). Source: Collection of Gail and Tony Ganz, Los Angeles. © The Estate of Eva Hesse. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth. 5.3 Claudette Johnson (2015) Untitled. Pastel on paper, 154 × 104 cm. Source: Courtesy the artist and Hollybush Gardens, London. 5.4 Adrian Piper (1967) The Barbie Doll Drawings. Series of 35 drawings: Indian ink and Rapidograph and/or pencil on paper. Each 8.5 × 5.5 inches (21.5 × 14 cm). Detail: drawing # 7 of 35. Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Source: © Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin. 6.1 Louise Bourgeois (1994) Sculptress. Drypoint on paper, 33.2 × 20.7 cm. Part of the Autobiographical Series. Source: © The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2018. 6.2 Nicola Tyson (2015) Pre Non-Snowstorm Self-Portrait. Graphite on paper. 19.05 × 19.05 cm (7.5 × 7.5 inches). Source: Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York. 6.3 Frances Stark (2010) Pull After "Push". Latex, printed matter, linen tape, stickers on panel.175.26 × 226.06 cm (69 × 89 inches). Source: Photo by Robert Wedemeyer. Courtesy the artist. 6.4 Emma Talbot (2013). Watercolour on paper. 24 × 30 cm. Reproduced by permission of the artist. 7.1 Shilpa Gupta (2014) 100 Hand drawn Maps of Country. Carbon tracings on paper; 30 × 22 in. (17 × 56 cm). Source: Courtesy of The Artist & Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Habana. Photographer: Ela Bialkkowska. 100 people were invited to make a hand drawn map of their country - in Mumbai. 7.2 Shilpa Gupta (2016) Untitled. Tracings: pencil on paper; 8.3 × 11.7 in. (21 × 29.7 cm). Source: Courtesy of The Artist and Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv. Photographer: Elad Sarig. 7.3 Shilpa Gupta (2012) Stars in Flags of the World, July 2011. Embroidery on cloth; 82 × 58 × 6 in. (209 × 148 ×15 cm). Source: Courtesy of The Artist & Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Habana. 8.1 Jade Montserrat (2017) No Need for...
