Drawing Distinctions : : The Varieties of Graphic Expression / / Patrick Maynard.

"If our procedure is to work steadily in the direction of drawing as fine art, rather than (as we so often find) beginning from examples of such art, where shall we begin? One attractive possibility is to begin at the beginning—not the beginning in prehistory, which is already wonderful art, bu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2005
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 64 halftones, 28 line drawings
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Part I: All Kinds of Drawings
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Picture of a Drawn World
  • Chapter 2. Instruments of Change
  • Chapter 3. Drawing and Graphic Displays
  • Chapter 4. Drawing/Disegno
  • Part II: The Course of Drawing
  • Chapter 5. The Forms of Shape
  • Chapter 6. Depictive Drawing
  • Chapter 7. Convincing Depiction
  • Chapter 8. Depictions as Depictions
  • Chapter 9. Decorative Depiction
  • Part III: Drawing's Resources
  • Chapter 10. Advancing the Drawing Course
  • Chapter 11. Forms and Frameworks
  • Chapter 12. Drawing's Own Devices
  • Part IV: The Fullness of Drawing
  • Chapter 13. Drawing's Dualisms
  • Chapter 14. Drawings as Drawn
  • Notes
  • Index of Personal Names
  • Index of Subjects