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The story of drawing : an alternative history of art / Susan Owens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Owens, Susan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drawing--History.
- Drawing.
- Drawing--Technique.
- Drawing--History--Biography.
- Genre:
- Art criticism.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 250 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Alternative history of art
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2024]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Drawing is at the heart of human creativity. The most democratic form of art-making, it requires nothing more than a plain surface and a stub of pencil, a piece of chalk or an inky brush. Our prehistoric ancestors drew with natural pigments on the walls of caves, and every subsequent culture has practiced drawing – whether on papyrus, parchment or paper. Artists throughout history have used drawing as part of the creative process. While painting and sculpture have been shaped heavily by money and influence, drawing has always offered extraordinary creative latitude. Here we see the artist at his or her most unguarded. Susan Owens offers a glimpse over artists’ shoulders– from Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Hokusai to Van Gogh, Käthe Kollwitz and Yayoi Kusama – as they work, think and innovate, as they scrutinize the world around them or escape into their imaginations. The Story of Drawing loops around the established history of art, sometimes staying close, at other times diving into exhilarating and altogether less familiar territory." -- Provided by publisgher.
- Contents:
- Scribes, saints and sinners
- The wide world
- In the Renaissance workshop
- Discoveries
- Shows of emotion
- Close encounters
- Enchanted landscapes
- Virtuoso performances
- Culture and colonisation
- Peculiar ground
- Searching for the self
- Places of the mind
- Marbles and models
- Observation and imagination
- New subjects, new methods
- Mediums of modern life
- Rethinking the body
- Mapping the mind
- The human span
- Bearing witness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Owens, Susan. The story of drawing.
- ISBN:
- 9780300277609
- 0300277601
- OCLC:
- 1456998800
- Publisher Number:
- 4010552 EBSCO
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