Thinking about drawing Introduction to themes and concepts
Book - 2022
"A short, accessible illustrated guide to key ideas that are used to describe, understand and explain drawing, for practitioners and students of art, design, media and architecture"--
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- Subjects
- Published
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
2022.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xii, 158 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781350265936
9781350269439
- List of illustrations
- Introduction: What is drawing?
- 1. Imitation
- The threshold of visualization and the problem of media
- Depiction and visualization
- Imitating vision and imitating drawing
- Digital imitation
- Analogue imitation
- Imitating experience
- 2. Mark
- Tone
- Line
- Planning
- Mapping
- Drawing systems representing three dimensions
- Typification
- Writing
- Mark making across media
- Introducing the body
- 3. Trace
- The surface
- The surface of the drawing as the skin of a body
- The surface as a visualization of an idea
- The limits of the drawing
- The significance of drawing media
- Trace, media and body
- Trace and style
- Trace as evidence
- Movement, mind and absence
- Choreographing traces
- Trace and depiction
- 4. Story
- Story and point of view
- The story of the drawing
- Story and style
- Drawing style and character
- 5. Drawing today
- Feeling
- Technology old and new
- Systematic drawings
- Identity and power
- Textiles and the line
- Conjecture and hypothesis
- Collaborative drawing
- Performing drawing
- Moving drawings
- Contemporary drawing and public cultural institutions
- Selective glossary
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- Index