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A Companion to Contemporary Drawing

Kelly Chorpening (Edited by), Rebecca Fortnum (Edited by)

9781119194545, Wiley

Hardback, published 30 November 2020

576 pages
1 x 1 x 1 cm, 0.454 kg

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.

List of Illustrations ix

Notes on Contributors xvii

Acknowledgments xxv

Introduction 1
Kelly Chorpening and Rebecca Fortnum

Part I The Power of Drawing 11

1 The Black Index 13
Bridget R. Cooks

2 A State of Alert: The Politics of Eroticism in South American Drawing 29
Sofia Gotti

3 Graphic Witness 55
Kate Macfarlane

4 Drawn from Communism: Anti-Capitalist Drawing from Central-Eastern Europe 71
Magdalena Radomska

5 Differencing Drawing: Feminist Perspectives on Line, Surface, and Space 95
Griselda Pollock

6 A Dirty Double Mirror: Drawing, Autobiography, and Feminism 123
Rebecca Fortnum

7 Between the Sky and the Handle: Shilpa Gupta’s Drawings in the Contemporary 147
Parul Dave Mukherji

8 Drawing as Contagion 161
Jade Montserrat

9 Curating Drawing: Exhibitions and the Centering of Drawing in Contemporary Art 167
João Ribas

Part II The Condition of Drawing 183

10 Observation and Drawing: From Looking to Seeing 185
Paul Moorhouse

11 “Drawing’s Impropriety” 203
Lucien Massaert

12 Drawing in Atopia: An Exploration of “Drift” as Method 221
Beth Harland

13 Works on/in/with Paper: Approaching Drawing as Responsive Marking 239
Marina Kassianidou

14 Indexical Drawing: On Frottage 257
Margaret Iversen

15 Ground as Critical Limit 271
Laura Lisbon

16 Drawing’s Finish 287
Stephanie Straine

17 Radical Antinomies: Drawing and Conceptual Art 309
Anna Lovatt

18 Drawing Desires 325
Sunil Manghani

19 Drawing from Life and the Twenty-first Century Art School 343
Kelly Chorpening

Part III The Expanse of Drawing 367

20 Marking Time, Moving Images: Drawing and Film 369
Ed Krčma

21 Digital Drawing 389
Tamarin Norwood

22 The Dot and the Line: Drawing Amongst Computers 407
Jane de Almeida

23 Installation/Drawing: Spaces of Drawing Between Art and Architecture 431
Sophia Banou

24 Informational Drawing 451
Matthew Ritchie

25 Drawing Towards Sound – Notation, Diagram, Drawing 471
David Ryan

26 Chinese Calligraphy: A Drawing Ecology 493

Eric Wear

27 The Enduring Power of Comic Strips 513
Simon Grennan

Index 531

Subject Areas: History of art / art & design styles [AC]
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