Performance drawing : new practice since 1945 / Maryclare Foá, Jane Grisewood, Birgitta Hosea, Carali McCall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foa, Maryclare, author.

Grisewood, Jane, author.

Hosea, Birgitta, author.

McCall, Carali, 1981- author.

Series:

Drawing in

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performance drawing.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"What is 'performance drawing'? When does a drawing turn into a performance? Is the act of drawing in itself a performative process, whether a viewer is present or not? Through conversation, interviews and essays, the authors illuminate these questions, and what it might mean to perform, and what it might mean to draw, in a diverse and expressive contemporary practice since the 1960s. The term 'performance drawing' refers to Drawing Papers: Performance Drawings by Catherine de Zegher (2001), with origins in live works decades earlier. In this book, it is used as a trope, and a thread of thinking, to describe a process dedicated to broadening the field of drawing through resourceful practices and cross-disciplinary influence. The introduction presents a brief historical background and outlines approaches to performance drawing. As a way to embrace the different voices and various lenses in producing this book, each author reveals their individual perspectives and critical methodology in the five chapters. While embedded in ephemerality and immediacy, the themes encompass body and energy, time and motion, light and space, imagined and observed, demonstrating how drawing can act as a performative tool. The dynamic interaction leads to a collective understanding of the term, performance drawing, and addresses the key developments and future directions of this applied drawing process. Featuring a wide range of international artists, the acclaimed practitioners from the 1960s, such as Alison Knowles, Carolee Schneemann, Richard Long, Robert Morris, Tom Marioni, Trisha Brown and William Kentridge, have been instrumental in instituting and exposing the relationship between drawing and performing. This book provides the foundation behind these pioneers, alongside a platform for current and emerging artists, and for those working between the boundaries of the genre. Merging experiences and disciplines in the expanded field has established a vibrant art movement that has been progressively burgeoning in the last few years"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword Preface

1. Marking: Line and Body in Time and Space

2. Physicality: Running as Drawing

3. Communicating: Directives and/or Instructions that Promote the Activity of Drawing

4. Conjuring: the Gift of a Surprise

5. Illuminating: Live Mark Making Through Projected Light

Conclusion

Bibliography

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 28, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Foa, Maryclare. Performance drawing

ISBN:

9781350113022

9781350113008

1350113018

9781350113015

135011300X

OCLC:

1152456197

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.