Drawing Redefined (Print copy) by
Drawing Redefined offers an original, critical look at the distinctive role drawing plays in the processes of five influential contemporary artists. For Roni Horn, Esther Kläs, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Richard Tuttle, and Jorinde Voigt drawing is an essential medium in their multimedia and object-based work. Drawing affirms these artists' tactile engagement with the world and serves as a means for aesthetic experimentation and inquiry. In these artists' hands and through their bodies, the traditional practice of drawing is transformed into an exploration of time and space not necessarily bound to the page or the wall, manifest in film, sculpture, and painting. Following an introduction that traces the art historical precedents of drawing's key role in 20th-century artistic practice, noted scholars of contemporary art provide essays that explore the individual work of each artist and the vital place drawing maintains within it. Their diverse and compelling works of art are featured in 60 color illustrations.
Mindfulness and the Art of Drawing: a creative path to practice. (print copy) by
Everyone can draw. And everyone can be mindful. Mindfulness & the Art of Drawing is an engaging and enlightening insight into why the everyday process of setting pencil to paper is a meditative act by its innate nature. An enjoyable and discursive text offers an absorbing read and is accompanied by exercises that offer the reader practical experience in drawing mindfully. A lively, surprising and inspirational creative journey.
Lines: a brief history. (Print copy) by
What do walking, weaving, observing, storytelling, singing, drawing and writing have in common? The answer is that they all proceed along lines. In this extraordinary book Tim Ingold imagines a world in which everyone and everything consists of interwoven or interconnected lines and lays the foundations for a completely new discipline: the anthropological archaeology of the line. Ingold¿s argument leads us through the music of Ancient Greece and contemporary Japan, Siberian labyrinths and Roman roads, Chinese calligraphy and the printed alphabet, weaving a path between antiquity and the present. Drawing on a multitude of disciplines including archaeology, classical studies, art history, linguistics, psychology, musicology, philosophy and many others, and including more than seventy illustrations, this book takes us on an exhilarating intellectual journey that will change the way we look at the world and how we go about in it. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by the author.
Six Drawing Lessons (Print copy) by
Over the last three decades, the visual artist William Kentridge has garnered international acclaim for his work across media including drawing, film, sculpture, printmaking, and theater. Rendered in stark contrasts of black and white, his images reflect his native South Africa and, like endlessly suggestive shadows, point to something more elemental as well. Based on the 2012 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Six Drawing Lessons is the most comprehensive collection available of Kentridge's thoughts on art, art-making, and the studio. Art, Kentridge says, is its own form of knowledge. It does not simply supplement the real world, and it cannot be purely understood in the rational terms of traditional academic disciplines. The studio is the crucial location for the creation of meaning: the place where linear thinking is abandoned and the material processes of the eye, the hand, the charcoal and paper become themselves the guides of creativity. Drawing has the potential to educate us about the most complex issues of our time. This is the real meaning of "drawing lessons." Incorporating elements of graphic design and ranging freely from discussions of Plato's cave to the Enlightenment's role in colonial oppression to the depiction of animals in art, Six Drawing Lessons is an illustration in print of its own thesis of how art creates knowledge. Foregrounding the very processes by which we see, Kentridge makes us more aware of the mechanisms--and deceptions--through which we construct meaning in the world.
Drawing Ambiguity: beside the lines of contemporary art. (Print copy) by
This is the third book in the innovative TRACEY series on contemporary drawing. Drawing Ambiguity builds upon its predecessors, Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art, 200 7 and Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art, 2012, by proposing that a position of ambiguity, a lack of definition, is not only desirable within fine art drawing but also necessary - having the capacity to enable and sustain drawing practices. What happens if we are ambivalent to what is a drawing, or what drawing is? The editors Russell Marshall and Phil Sawdon bring together seven invited contributions to offer multiple perspectives from within and without the fine art drawing field to respond to these questions. Each contributor was offered the opportunity to acknowledge ambiguity within drawing as creatively informed by three overarching themes: William Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity in literary prose, the logical fallacies of ambiguity, and grammatical prepositions.There are contributions from the artist Ilana Halperin, the artist-researcher Deborah Harty, the artist and founder member of the group Underworld Karl Hyde, the creative collaboration of Kristen Kreider and James O'Leary, the artist, writer Michael Phillipson, the artist, academic Rob Ward, the series editors Russell Marshall and Phil Sawdon together with a contextual Introduction by the artist, writer, curator Derek Horton.
This link takes you to the Catalogue for books in the West Suffolk College Library
Bull, K (2014) ‘The art student as data capturer: engaging multimedia technology in teaching drawing to visual arts students at a tertiary level’, Technoetic Arts: A Journal Of Speculative Research, 12 (2/3), pp. 251-262. Click here to access
Graham, J. (2018) ‘Nine Drawings: seriality, postphenomenology and the force of time’, Journal Of Visual Art Practice, 17(1), pp. 41-66. Click here to access
Mayo, N. (2012) ‘Drawing into practice’, Journal Of Visual Art Practice, 11(1), pp. 75-81. Click here to access
Monahan, R. (2012) ‘Drawing conclusions: an investigation into the influence of drawing upon other art practice’, Journal Of Visual Art Practice, 11(1), pp. 83-94. Click here to access
Webster, C. (2012) ‘The journey and movement, repetition and time: drawing within my visual practice’, Journal Of Visual Art Practice, 11 (1), pp. 27-47. Click here to access
Weingrod, C (1993) ‘Using pen & ink: learning from old master drawings’, American Artist, 57 (606), pp. 12-17. Click here to access
This link will take you to the subject guide for Art Practice where you will find lots of useful information to help you with finding resources and study skills.
A-N magazine - back copies available in print in the library and online via A-Z of online journals http://libguides.uos.ac.uk/a-z-ejournals
Art Bulletin - Available full-text online via A-Z of online journals http://libguides.uos.ac.uk/a-z-ejournals
Art Journal - Available full-text online via A-Z of online journals http://libguides.uos.ac.uk/a-z-ejournals
Art Monthly - Available full-text online via A-Z of online journals http://libguides.uos.ac.uk/a-z-ejournals
Drawing - Available full-text online via A-Z of online journals http://libguides.uos.ac.uk/a-z-ejournals
Illustration - Available full-text online via A-Z of online journals http://libguides.uos.ac.uk/a-z-ejournals
Journal of Visual Culture - Available full-text online via A-Z of online journals http://libguides.uos.ac.uk/a-z-ejournals
