A companion to contemporary drawing / 
edited by Kelly Chorpening & Rebecca Fortnum. 
 - First edition. 
 - 1 online resource 
 - Wiley Blackwell companions to art history .
<br/><br/> Includes index.  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.<br/><br/>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.  
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Table of contents<br/><br/>List of Illustrations ix<br/><br/>Notes on Contributors xvii<br/><br/>Acknowledgments xxv<br/><br/>Introduction 1<br/>Kelly Chorpening and Rebecca Fortnum<br/><br/>Part I The Power of Drawing 11<br/><br/>1 The Black Index 13<br/>Bridget R. Cooks<br/><br/>2 A State of Alert: The Politics of Eroticism in South American Drawing 29<br/>Sofia Gotti<br/><br/>3 Graphic Witness 55<br/>Kate Macfarlane<br/><br/>4 Drawn from Communism: Anti-Capitalist Drawing from Central-Eastern Europe 71<br/>Magdalena Radomska<br/><br/>5 Differencing Drawing: Feminist Perspectives on Line, Surface, and Space 95<br/>Griselda Pollock<br/><br/>6 A Dirty Double Mirror: Drawing, Autobiography, and Feminism 123<br/>Rebecca Fortnum<br/><br/>7 Between the Sky and the Handle: Shilpa Gupta’s Drawings in the Contemporary 147<br/>Parul Dave Mukherji<br/><br/>8 Drawing as Contagion 161<br/>Jade Montserrat<br/><br/>9 Curating Drawing: Exhibitions and the Centering of Drawing in Contemporary Art 167<br/>João Ribas<br/><br/>Part II The Condition of Drawing 183<br/><br/>10 Observation and Drawing: From Looking to Seeing 185<br/>Paul Moorhouse<br/><br/>11 “Drawing’s Impropriety” 203<br/>Lucien Massaert<br/><br/>12 Drawing in Atopia: An Exploration of “Drift” as Method 221<br/>Beth Harland<br/><br/>13 Works on/in/with Paper: Approaching Drawing as Responsive Marking 239<br/>Marina Kassianidou<br/><br/>14 Indexical Drawing: On Frottage 257<br/>Margaret Iversen<br/><br/>15 Ground as Critical Limit 271<br/>Laura Lisbon<br/><br/>16 Drawing’s Finish 287<br/>Stephanie Straine<br/><br/>17 Radical Antinomies: Drawing and Conceptual Art 309<br/>Anna Lovatt<br/><br/>18 Drawing Desires 325<br/>Sunil Manghani<br/><br/>19 Drawing from Life and the Twenty-first Century Art School 343<br/>Kelly Chorpening<br/><br/>Part III The Expanse of Drawing 367<br/><br/>20 Marking Time, Moving Images: Drawing and Film 369<br/>Ed Krčma<br/><br/>21 Digital Drawing 389<br/>Tamarin Norwood<br/><br/>22 The Dot and the Line: Drawing Amongst Computers 407<br/>Jane de Almeida<br/><br/>23 Installation/Drawing: Spaces of Drawing Between Art and Architecture 431<br/>Sophia Banou<br/><br/>24 Informational Drawing 451<br/>Matthew Ritchie<br/><br/>25 Drawing Towards Sound – Notation, Diagram, Drawing 471<br/>David Ryan<br/><br/>26 Chinese Calligraphy: A Drawing Ecology 493<br/><br/>Eric Wear<br/><br/>27 The Enduring Power of Comic Strips 513<br/>Simon Grennan<br/><br/>Index 531<br/><br/>The black index / Bridget R. Cooks -- Observation and drawing : from looking to seeing / Paul Moorhouse -- Marking time, moving images : drawing and film / Ed Krčma -- Chinese calligraphy : a drawing ecology / Eric Otto Wear 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781119194576 9781119194583 9781119194569 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2019045091 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Drawing--Themes, motives.--21st century
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NC96 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>741