Drawing Distinctions: The Varieties of Graphic ExpressionCornell University Press, 2005 - 266 страници "If our procedure is to work steadily in the direction of drawing as fine art, rather than (as we so often find) beginning from examples of such art, where shall we begin? One attractive possibility is to begin at the beginning--not the beginning in prehistory, which is already wonderful art, but with our personal beginnings as children. From there it will be the ambitious project of this book to investigate 'the course of drawing, ' from the first marks children make to the greatest graphic arts of different cultures."--from the IntroductionPatrick Maynard surveys the rich and varied practices of drawing, from the earliest markings on cave walls to the complex technical schematics that make the modern world possible, from cartoons and the first efforts of preschoolers to the works of skilled draftspeople and the greatest artists, East and West.Despite, or perhaps because of, its ubiquity, drawing as such has provoked remarkably little philosophical reflection. Nonphilosophical writing on the topic tends to be divided between specialties such as art history and mechanics. In this engagingly written and well-illustrated book, Maynard reveals the interconnections and developments that unite this fundamental autonomous human activity in all its diversity. Informed by close discussion of work in art history, art criticism, cognitive and developmental psychology, and aesthetics, Drawing Distinctions presents a theoretically sophisticated yet approachable argument that will improve comprehension and appreciation of drawing in its many forms, uses, and meanings. |
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Introduction 334 | 3 |
Instruments of Change | 19 |
Hergé Tintin cartoon | 31 |
Roz Chast isometric cartoon | 32 |
Albrecht Dürer Lute | 33 |
Albrecht Dürer Portrait | 34 |
Pompeiian wall painting | 37 |
Every point perspective projection | 38 |
Convincing Depiction | 94 |
Wilhelm Busch Schopenhauer and his poodle | 96 |
Leonardo da Vinci Designs for a Nativity | 107 |
Depictions as Depictions | 108 |
Child AM drawing Museum | 110 |
Starfit packing | 112 |
Pantheon butterfly marble | 113 |
MüllerLyer illusion | 116 |
Taccola Brunelleschis oxlift device | 41 |
Perspective transversals construction | 46 |
Fig 32 detail study | 47 |
Engineering dimensioning drawing | 51 |
Drawing and Graphic Displays | 53 |
London Underground map | 55 |
Interlace pattern | 57 |
Bowline knot diagram | 59 |
DrawingDisegno | 61 |
Anna O Shepard symmetry diagram | 65 |
J Peter Denny band symmetry analysis | 66 |
The Forms of Shape | 71 |
Child EL enclosures drawing | 72 |
Tughra of Sulaiman the Magnificent | 74 |
Childs drawing Dog and pigbully | 76 |
Childs drawing Parrot and nest | 78 |
Childs drawing Playground | 80 |
Epictetus in Rome | 81 |
John Willats objectcentered drawing stimulus pictures | 82 |
Depictive Drawing | 84 |
Assyrian lion relief North Palace of Sennacherib | 117 |
Decorative Depiction | 121 |
Bears from Cactus Gallery and Recess of the Bears Chauvet Cave | 124 |
Mycenaean stirrup jar with octopus | 129 |
Painted molding Ognissanti Florence | 132 |
Advancing the Drawing Course | 137 |
Zou Fulei A Breath of Spring | 140 |
Two lions End Chamber Chauvet Cave | 142 |
Western Lines | 144 |
Shihtao leaf from album for Taoist Yü | 145 |
DepthSlices and PlanSections | 150 |
Bracelets Bubbles Facets and Ovoids | 157 |
Shadows Steal | 165 |
Forms and Frameworks | 173 |
Drawings Own Devices | 184 |
Drawings Dualisms | 207 |
Drawings as Drawn | 217 |
Notes | 233 |
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