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Making and drawing / Kyra Cane.

By: Cane, Kyra.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2012Description: 208 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.ISBN: 9781408134511 (hbk.); 1408134519 (hbk.).Subject(s): Artists' preparatory studies | Drawing | Artists -- InterviewsDDC classification: 741
Contents:
Drawing as reference -- Drawing as planning and design -- Drawing as surface -- Drawing as making -- Drawing as thinking -- Drawing as technology.
Summary: Using interviews with artists across a range of disciplines, Kyra Cane explores how they use drawing to inform, inspire and create; from recording sources to developing 3D forms. Lavishly illustrated, Making and Drawing is an essential read for students, makers and artists who want to explore their potential through drawing.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

It is common knowledge that artists of all kinds often make preparatory sketches before they create a work, but in fact this is only one of the ways in which artists are required to draw. Makers across all disciplines draw in some form or another, but often for diverse reasons, and using very different methods.Informed by interviews with artists across a broad range of disciplines, and often with special access to their sketchbooks and studios, Kyra Cane explores the many ways in which artists use drawing to inform, inspire and create their work. She describes how makers draw to record source material, as a form of planning, to develop surface decoration and three-dimensional forms, as a way of thinking about and reflecting on their work, and how they use new technology.Lavishly illustrated and thoughtfully constructed, Making and Drawing sheds new light on contemporary artists' practice. It is an essential read for visual arts students, artists who want to use drawing differently or explore its potential in their practice, and anyone who wants to know more about the secret stories behind the creation of these works.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Drawing as reference -- Drawing as planning and design -- Drawing as surface -- Drawing as making -- Drawing as thinking -- Drawing as technology.

Using interviews with artists across a range of disciplines, Kyra Cane explores how they use drawing to inform, inspire and create; from recording sources to developing 3D forms. Lavishly illustrated, Making and Drawing is an essential read for students, makers and artists who want to explore their potential through drawing.

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Kyra Cane was leader of the Harrow Ceramics degree course at the University of Westminster from 2000 to 2009, and has been a lecturer in drawing and ceramics since 1986. She has been an external validator for the Royal College of Art, external examiner for Glasgow School of Art and held the post of Chair of the National Association of Ceramics in Higher Education. She is a successful potter based at the Harley Foundation in Nottinghamshire, a selected member of Contemporary Applied Arts and a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association of Great Britain.