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 ixNotes on Contributors xviiAcknowledgments xxvIntroduction 1Kelly Chorpening and Rebecca FortnumPart I The Power of Drawing 111 The Black Index 13Bridget R. Cooks2 A State of Alert: The Politics of Eroticism in South American Drawing 29Sofia Gotti3 Graphic Witness 55Kate Macfarlane4 Drawn from Communism: Anti-Capitalist Drawing from Central-Eastern Europe 71Magdalena Radomska5 Differencing Drawing: Feminist Perspectives on Line, Surface, and Space 95Griselda Pollock6 A Dirty Double Mirror: Drawing, Autobiography, and Feminism 123Rebecca Fortnum7 Between the Sky and the Handle: Shilpa Gupta’s Drawings in the Contemporary 147Parul Dave Mukherji8 Drawing as Contagion 161Jade Montserrat9 Curating Drawing: Exhibitions and the Centering of Drawing in Contemporary Art 167João RibasPart II The Condition of Drawing 18310 Observation and Drawing: From Looking to Seeing 185Paul Moorhouse11 “Drawing’s Impropriety” 203Lucien Massaert12 Drawing in Atopia: An Exploration of “Drift” as Method 221Beth Harland13 Works on/in/with Paper: Approaching Drawing as Responsive Marking 239Marina Kassianidou14 Indexical Drawing: On Frottage 257Margaret Iversen15 Ground as Critical Limit 271Laura Lisbon16 Drawing’s Finish 287Stephanie Straine17 Radical Antinomies: Drawing and Conceptual Art 309Anna Lovatt18 Drawing Desires 325Sunil Manghani19 Drawing from Life and the Twenty-first Century Art School 343Kelly ChorpeningPart III The Expanse of Drawing 36720 Marking Time, Moving Images: Drawing and Film 369Ed Krčma21 Digital Drawing 389Tamarin Norwood22 The Dot and the Line: Drawing Amongst Computers 407Jane de Almeida23 Installation/Drawing: Spaces of Drawing Between Art and Architecture 431Sophia Banou24 Informational Drawing 451Matthew Ritchie25 Drawing Towards Sound – Notation, Diagram, Drawing 471David Ryan26 Chinese Calligraphy: A Drawing Ecology 493Eric Wear27 The Enduring Power of Comic Strips 513Simon GrennanIndex 531