Alison Wilding: On Paper

Penelope Curtis is a curator and art historian and the former director of Tate Britain in London and the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. Curtis has written widely on 20th-Century British sculpture, on European art and architecture of the inter-war years, and on many contemporary sculptors. She is author of Sculpture 1900–1945: After Rodin (OUP, 1999) and Patio and Pavilion: The Place of Sculpture in Modern Architecture (Ridinghouse, 2007). Anna Lovatt is an Associate Professor at Meadows School of the Arts, and the author of Drawing Degree Zero: The Line from Minimal to Conceptual Art (Penn State University Press, 2019). Lovatt’s research focuses on art of the 1960s onward, particularly the role of drawing and diagramming in Conceptual Art, Land Art and Minimalism. Rosie Cooper is the director of the Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, she was previously Head of Exhibitions at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, and Head of programmes at Liverpool Biennial.

• – Preface by Sophie Kullmann– Migrations: On the Drawings of Alison Wilding by Anna Lovatt– Difficult conversations: The Notebooks of Alison Wilding by Penelope Curtis– Plates– In conversation: Alison Wilding and Rosie Cooper– Acknowledgements

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