Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science

Gemma Anderson is a research fellow at the University of Exeter in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology and the Living Systems Institute, and a lecturer in drawing at Falmouth University.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction Chapter 1: On drawing as a way of knowing Chapter 2: On drawing practice in science Chapter 3: Drawing resemblances and Isomorphology Chapter 4: Drawing with Goethe’s morphology Chapter 5: Dynamic form: Klee as artist and morphologist Chapter 6: Mathematics and art: Notes from an artistic collaboration Chapter 7: Isomorphogenesis: Drawing a dynamic morphology Chapter 8: The Cornwall Morphology and Drawing Centre Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index

'The book allows a very close look into the artist's practice and the practice of collaborating scientists. Drawing procedures, such as the decision-making in the process of drawing, can be extremely interesting and fruitful for artists and scientists, but also for people from other disciplines. Key moments that are rarely ever in focus when talking about drawing are emphasized as vital ones, such as the gaining of knowledge through mimetic processes, the period of time in which a drawing is created or how drawing changes the way of seeing the world. Thus, the author’s project can be described in the very best sense as practice-based, but also as artistic research; eventually, it opens up a fantastic intellectual and artistic universe beyond that.'