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This page is intended to provide reviews of interest to other drawing researchers. We welcome reviews of relevant papers, books, exhibitions, theses and other research-related outputs (in the case of exhibitions we cannot guarantee to get the review posted on this page during the life of the exhibition). I reserve the right to edit any submissions. Please send contributions to Steve Garner (s.w.garner@open.ac.uk). DRN conference, 8th October 2009, Cochrane Theatre, LondonPAPERS FROM PRESENTERS > Joel Fisher, Notes Towards A Prepositional Drawing > Eduardo Corte-Real, The Smooth Guide to Travel Drawing Journal and conference papersExhibitions[24 April 2008] "On entering the Centre for Recent Drawing's intimate space, I was pleasantly stunned by Mia Pearlman¹s Eye - a giant swirl of cut and inked paper, lit from below, casting shadows, as it expanded onto the ceiling and walls. This work had instant appeal with an energy akin to Pop Art, in particular Lichtenstein¹s Wham. Along side responding to Pearlman¹s site-specific installation, were Gareth Bell-Jones's arduous but carefully cut drawings....." Books------Visualising Boolean Set Operations: Real and Virtual Boundaries in Contemporary Site-specific Art----- New book by Dr EUGENIA FRATZESKOU - find out more... [PDF] ------Writing on Drawing, Essays on Drawing Practice and Research----- Edited by Steve Garner ‘Is your pencil British?’ asks the introduction to ‘Pride, Prejudice and the Pencil’, a highly engaging essay by James Faure Walker, within this unique collection of previously unpublished works by artists and academics. Walker outlines a brief, often humorous, history of drawing and proceeds to examine whether, in the age of digital design, the days of the pencil are unfortunately numbered. Drawing has long been viewed as a necessary but ultimately poor relation to contemporary art. However, an increased public and academic interest of late, has allowed drawing research to emerge as a discipline in its own right. Contemporary drawing practice, says Anita Taylor in the book’s foreword, can be anything. It therefore has the constituent problem that if drawing is everything, then it is also nothing – or at least nothing special. Conversely, the essays in Writing on Drawing confirm the territory of drawing as a distinctive aspect of creative practice. The wider debates surrounding digital innovation versus traditional methods, which have consumed every area of contemporary art in recent years, and in particular those of photography and film (i.e. film versus digital / film versus HD), is also discussed here, as drawing opens itself up to the new consumer culture of digital design. However, the book also takes a broad view and aside from its location within contemporary art, discusses drawing in its wider context and application in diverse fields such as science, medicine and engineering. And a review of the book ‘Writing on Drawing’ from Kenya! http://artmatters.info/?p=1264 -----------------------Gaze ----------------------------Sian Bowen, Gaze, Art Editions North, University of Sunderland/Victoria and Albert Museum, 2007. A book published on the occasion of the display of new work made by Sian Bowen during her residency in drawing at the V&A Museum, London, 2006-07. It’s befitting that this co-publication with the V&A highlights new drawing that displays one foot in the past and one in the future. Bowen’s work from this residency emerges directly from the varied collections of images and artefacts in the V&A collections, ranging from work inspired by Japanese woodcuts, daguerreotypes, knitting patterns and wallpaper. It also charts a relationship between drawing and new technologies such as laser cutting and screen-based media. Bowen addresses the inevitable divide in museum displays between the visitor and the work on show - between the viewer and the viewed. Her drawings explore this relationship through analogy and metaphor in a way not possible with tangible artefacts. Having said this, it’s the physical - the qualities and surface texture of paper - that figure strongly in Bowen’s work. The book presents a rich and diverse collection of drawing outputs which are strongly three-dimensional on a micro and macro level. Interpretation is provided through four personal perspectives provided by Gill Saunders, Richard Cork, Tony Godfrey and Pauline Webber. A valuable contribution to the interface between research into drawing and research through drawing. ---------------Drawing - The Purpose ----------------- Edited by Leo Duff and Phil Sawdon ---------------Drawing - the motive force of architecture ----------------- Author: Peter Cook Reviewer: © Ben Jonson > REVIEW: Drawing - the motive force of architecture Theses and other research[25 April 2008] ‘Systematic Methodology and the Role of the Freehand Sketch
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