Drawing Now: Eight Propositions

Drawing Now: Eight Propositions
by Kai Althoff, Laura Hoptman, Chris Ofili, Franz Ackerman, Russell Crotty, Toba Khedoori, Graham Little, Los Carpinteros, Jockum Nordstrum, Jennifer Pastor, David Thorpe, Richard Wright, John Currin, Mark Manders, Barry McGee, Julie Mehretu, Yoshitomo Nara

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Author: Barry McGee, Chris Ofili, David Thorpe, Franz Ackerman, Graham Little, Jennifer Pastor, Jockum Nordstrum, John Currin, Julie Mehretu, Kai Althoff, Laura Hoptman, Los Carpinteros, Mark Manders, Richard Wright, Russell Crotty, Toba Khedoori, Yoshitomo Nara
Contributor: Shahzia Sikander
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-10-15
ISBN: 0870703625
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Book Review: A strong drawing text
Summary: 5 Stars

I use this text in my Graduate Drawing class. There is a broad range of contemporary drawing included in the book, which gives the reader a snapshot of the variety of drawing being produced at the moment. The text in each chapter is brief, but complements the work, and contextualizes the drawings. I especially enjoy the fact that there are artists in the book whose work I like, and several whose work I don't really care for.
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From John Currin's old-master-style Playboy bunnies to Elizabeth Peyton's fin-de-si cle portraits; from Julie Mehretu's dizzying, multilayered architectural landscapes to Shahzia Sikander's multipatterned miniature ones; from Yoshitomo Nara's angry and enigmatic little girls to Kara Walker's stereotypical negresses; and from Barry McGee's caricatures of urban graffiti to Matthew Ritchie's cosmological diagrams--drawing is back, if it ever went away. In contrast to the digitized, multimedia direction that much of contemporary art has taken in the past decade, drawing has become a major and arguably parallel mode of expression for many of today's most important young artists. Drawing Now, published to accompany the first major survey of contemporary drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 15 years, contains more than 100 color reproductions of work by 26 international artists, both well-known and emerging, that demonstrate the fascinating variety of methods and approaches, mediums and scales, apparent in this old-again, new-again art. Accompanying essays by the exhibition's curator, Laura Hoptman, explore eight themes that she perceives in the field--Drafting & Architecture, Mental Maps & Metaphysics, Popular Culture & National Culture, Fashion, Likeness & Allegory, Envisioning a City, Science & Art, Comics & Other Subcultures, Ornament & Crime--and provide key impulses behind drawing's recent resurgence.

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