Contemporary Drawing

M Davidson

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Watson-Guptill
01 August 2011

Art & Architecture; Drawing & drawings; Painting & art manuals

"""Lushly illustrated by a wide range of highly accomplished contemporary

artists, Contemporary Drawing offers a broad perspective on this

expansive and energized field of art.""

Drawing is experiencing an unparalleled surge in the art world. Passe notions that once defined drawing as being a preparatory stage for painting or sculpture have long since been cast aside. Drawing is now fully recognized as its own art form-in the biennials, art fairs, museum exhibitions, and beyond. Drawing has come of age.

Contemporary artists are increasingly discovering that drawing is something unique and different from painting. It is an intense, sensitive, compelling, personal, and utterly direct art form, one with its own concepts, characteristics, and techniques. In addition, contemporary drawing is not governed by any particular imagery, but rather encompasses a variety of approaches, including realist, abstract, modernist, and post-modernist.

Contemporary Drawing delves into the essential and far-reaching concepts of this medium, exploring surface, mark, space, composition, scale, materials, and intentionality in turn. Key techniques, such as using nature to induce marks and working with a checklist to determine a drawing's problems, are introduced throughout. Plus, an in-depth chapter examines a number of artists, such as William Kentridge and Gego, who are breaking traditional boundaries that separate one artistic discipline from another.

Lushly illustrated by a wide range of highly accomplished contemporary artists, Contemporary Drawing offers a broad perspective on this expansive and energized field of art."

By: M Davidson
Imprint: Watson-Guptill
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 284mm, Width: 237mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 1.158kg
ISBN: 9780823033157
ISBN 10: 0823033155
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 August 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

Margaret Davidson has taught at the Pratt Fine Arts Center in Washington State, at Indiana University and at the University of Washington. Davidson currently teaches courses in Drawing from Modern Masters, the Aesthetics of Drawing and Advanced Drawing Techniques at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, Washington.

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Contemporary Drawing

M Davidson

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