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Rather than a history of techniques, media, and practitioners, Learning to Draw is an original and stimulating examination of drawing's cultural uses and meanings. Using a variety of sources including pedagogical and philosophical texts, novels, manuals of etiquette and decorum, letters and diaries, as well as drawings made by amateurs and professionals, Bermingham explores the social space that drawing both occupied and helped to form. Put simply, her book explains how drawing came to be seen as a practice of everyday life in the early modern period, what processes, both practical and ideological, enabled this to happen, how it intersected with changing social, political and practical needs, and what kind of cultural context enabled it to emerge as an amateur pastime.
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Starting with the 16th-century Italian influence of Castiglione's concept of courtly grace and concluding with the effects of 19th-century photography, Bermingham (art, architecture, and women's studies, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) presents the complex social environment of amateur drawing in England. Despite her modest statement that this is by no means a comprehensive study, she explores many aspects of her subject that will probably be unfamiliar to most readers (e.g., one section is about businesses that catered to amateur artists). The botanical illustrations and the beautiful images found in landscape "sketch books" are definite highlights. Although the focus is on drawings, media such as paintings and drawings adapted into prints are also discussed and shown. Apects of class and gender are considered throughout, with the chapter "Accomplished Women" being particularly noteworthy. Because of its highly detailed, scholarly writing, this book is recommended as most useful for university-level art history collections.
-Anne Marie Lane, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie
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