A Companion to Contemporary Drawing

Kelly Chorpening is the Fine Art Programme Director at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London. She has worked extensively in drawing as an artist, writer, curator and educator within fine art and across disciplines, and in a number of national contexts. Rebecca Fortnum is Professor of Fine Art at the Royal College of Art, UK. She is the author of Contemporary British Women Artists: In Their Own Words and On Not Knowing: How Artists Think. She has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at the Freud Museum and the V&A Museum of Childhood in London.

List of Illustrations ix

Notes on Contributors xvii

Acknowledgments xxv

Introduction 1
Kelly Chorpening and Rebecca Fortnum

Part I The Power of Drawing 11

1 The Black Index 13
Bridget R. Cooks

2 A State of Alert: The Politics of Eroticism in South American Drawing 29
Sofia Gotti

3 Graphic Witness 55
Kate Macfarlane

4 Drawn from Communism: Anti-Capitalist Drawing from Central-Eastern Europe 71
Magdalena Radomska

5 Differencing Drawing: Feminist Perspectives on Line, Surface, and Space 95
Griselda Pollock

6 A Dirty Double Mirror: Drawing, Autobiography, and Feminism 123
Rebecca Fortnum

7 Between the Sky and the Handle: Shilpa Gupta’s Drawings in the Contemporary 147
Parul Dave Mukherji

8 Drawing as Contagion 161
Jade Montserrat

9 Curating Drawing: Exhibitions and the Centering of Drawing in Contemporary Art 167
João Ribas

Part II The Condition of Drawing 183

10 Observation and Drawing: From Looking to Seeing 185
Paul Moorhouse

11 “Drawing’s Impropriety” 203
Lucien Massaert

12 Drawing in Atopia: An Exploration of “Drift” as Method 221
Beth Harland

13 Works on/in/with Paper: Approaching Drawing as Responsive Marking 239
Marina Kassianidou

14 Indexical Drawing: On Frottage 257
Margaret Iversen

15 Ground as Critical Limit 271
Laura Lisbon

16 Drawing’s Finish 287
Stephanie Straine

17 Radical Antinomies: Drawing and Conceptual Art 309
Anna Lovatt

18 Drawing Desires 325
Sunil Manghani

19 Drawing from Life and the Twenty-first Century Art School 343
Kelly Chorpening

Part III The Expanse of Drawing 367

20 Marking Time, Moving Images: Drawing and Film 369
Ed Krčma

21 Digital Drawing 389
Tamarin Norwood

22 The Dot and the Line: Drawing Amongst Computers 407
Jane de Almeida

23 Installation/Drawing: Spaces of Drawing Between Art and Architecture 431
Sophia Banou

24 Informational Drawing 451
Matthew Ritchie

25 Drawing Towards Sound – Notation, Diagram, Drawing 471
David Ryan

26 Chinese Calligraphy: A Drawing Ecology 493

Eric Wear

27 The Enduring Power of Comic Strips 513
Simon Grennan

Index 531