A companion to contemporary drawing / edited by Kelly Chorpening & Rebecca Fortnum.
Contributor(s): Chorpening, Kelly [editor]
| Fortnum, Rebecca [editor].
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BookSeries: Wiley-Blackwell companions to art history: Publisher: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First edition.Description: xxiii, 550 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781119194545 (hardback).Subject(s): Drawing -- 21st century -- Themes, motivesDDC classification: 741 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| Reference | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Reference | 741 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 00231941 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 thoughtPart 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part I : 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 -- Part II : The condition of drawing -- 10. Observation and drawing : from looking to seeing / Paul Moorhouse -- 11. "Drawing's impropriety" / Lucien Massaert -- 12. Drawing in atopia : an exploration of "drift" as method / Beth Harland -- 13. Works on/in/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 and the twenty-first century art school / Kelly Chorpening -- Part III : The expanse of drawing -- 20. Marking time, moving images : drawing and film / Ed Krčma -- 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 Wear -- 27. The enduring power of comic strips / Simon Grennan.
"With their deviant movements, carefully defined features, and exquisitely detailed faces, the serial drawings of Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, and Whitfield Lovell offer refreshing approaches to visual indexes of Black bodies. For some artists, the act of drawing is only a preliminary step toward a final artwork yet to be realized. However, these artists create drawings as complete manifestations of transient forms-humans in various stages of life and death. Each presents the beauty of Blackness, not to promote its consumerism, but to provide a space for meditation on the invisibility, misrecognition, and complexity of Black people" - publisher's description.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
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.