Drawing acts : studies in graphic expression and representation / David Rosand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosand, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drawing.

Drawing--Expertising.

Physical Description:

xxv, 419 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summary:

Drawing Acts is about drawing, as both art and act. Taking the study of drawings beyond the traditional agenda of connoisseurship, David Rosand explores the significance of the making of drawings, the meaning in the line of the draftsman, and the re-creative dimension of critical response. The book focuses on drawings by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Piranesi, Tiepolo, and Picasso, as well as on the history and theory of the medium itself. It seeks to establish new foundations for the criticism and appreciation of drawing, which is generally considered the most revealing record of artistic creativity, offering the most direct expression of the artistic self.

Contents:

1 Criticism, Connoisseurship, and the Phenomenology of Drawing 1

1. Ancient Lines 4

2. The Desire of the Line 9

3. The Phenomenology of Drawing 13

4. The Physiognomy of the Line 17

5. The Legacy of Connoisseurship 18

6. Beyond Connoisseurship 22

2 Disegno: The Invention of an Art 24

1. Alberti's Finding 25

2. Invenzioni and Invention 32

3. Leonardo's Discovery 50

4. The Father of the Arts 54

3 The Handwriting of the Self: Leonardo da Vinci 61

1. Inscribing the World 62

2. A Generation Drawing 67

3. Marginalia 79

4. Remembered Lines 88

5. Drawing and Knowing 97

4 Raphael and the Calligraphy of Classicism 112

1. The Circling Hand 113

2. Inflected Circles 121

3. Linear Grammar/Linear Grace 124

4. Connoisseurship of the Line 136

5. Penmanship 139

5 Disegni a stampa: The Printed Line 145

1. The Hand and the Press 146

2. The Line Transformed 158

3. The Sketched Plate 169

6 Michelangelo: The Urgent Gesture 182

1. Father of the Arts 184

2. Drawing for an Other 185

3. Making as Meaning 200

4. Drawing as Prayer 208

7 Rembrandt's Reach 220

1. The Mime of Drawing 221

2. The Physiology of Style 240

3. The Body in the Landscape 254

8 Capriccio: The Antic Line 265

1. Linear Analysis: Hogarth's Serpentine 266

2. Col sporcar si trova: Piranesi's Spiral 278

3. Invenzione to Capriccio 298

4. Story Lines of the Tiepolo 302

Epilogue: Picasso's Rehearsal 329.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-404) and index.

ISBN:

052177330X

OCLC:

46422249