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Drawing Investigations

Graphic Relationships with Science, Culture and Environment
 
Series: Drawing In;
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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Number of Volumes: Paperback
 
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Using close visual analysis of drawings, artist interviews, critical analysis and exegesis, Drawing Investigations examines how artists use drawing as an investigative tool to reveal information that would otherwise remain unseen and unnoticed.

How does drawing add shape to ideas? How does the artist accommodate to challenges and restraints of a particular environment? To what extent is a drawing complementary and continuous with its subject and where is it disruptive and provocative? Casey and Davies address these questions while focusing on artists working collaboratively and the use of drawing in challenging or unexpected environments.

Drawing Investigations evaluates the emergence of a way of thinking among an otherwise disconnected group of artists by exploring commonalities in the application of analytical drawing to the natural world, urban environment, social forces and lived experience. Examples represent a spectrum of research in international contexts: an oceanographic Institute in California, the archives of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, the Antarctic Survey, geothermal research in Japan and the Kurdish diaspora in Iraq. Issues are situated in the contemporary theory and practice of drawing including relationships to historical precedents.

By exploring drawing's capacity to capture and describe experience, to sharpen visual faculties and to bridge embodied and conceptual knowledge, Drawing Investigations offers a fresh critical perspective on contemporary drawing practice.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. Drawing on the past: a historical context for graphic investigations
2. Seeing Inside: drawing in the body
3. Visualising the Invisible: drawing mathematics and the cosmos
4. On Unfamiliar Ground: drawing environment, place and space
5. Traces of Life: drawing history and culture
6. Front Lines: drawing war, conflict and the law
7. Drawing Conclusions

Concluding Remarks
Bibliography