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Stick Figures: Drawing as a Human Practice - Softcover

D. B. Dowd

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9780990808589: Stick Figures: Drawing as a Human Practice
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0990808580 ISBN 13: 9780990808589
Publisher: Spartan Holiday Books in association with Norman Rockwell Museum, 2018

Synopsis

"Startlingly original." — Steven Guarnaccia, former op-ed director of the New York Times

From an accomplished practitioner, curator and theorist comes Stick Figures: Drawing as a Human Practice to reset the terms for an ancient activity. D. B. Dowd embraces drawing as a process for everyone, not just artists. This beautifully designed book uses a wonderful range of visual samples to explore an elemental human capacity. The artifacts of drawing (chiefly, illustrations and cartoons) are rescued from outdated hierarchies of taste and engaged on their own theoretical and cultural terms.

NOTE: This a book is a rumination on drawing, but it is NOT a book that will teach you how to draw. A reflection on why drawing matters, and how we might think about it as distinct from painting. Drawing as symbolic communication, not illusion-making. Not How-To, but What-For.

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Publisher
Spartan Holiday Books in association with Norman Rockwell Museum
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0990808580
ISBN 13 
9780990808589
Binding
Perfect Paperback
Rating
  • 4.12 out of 5 stars
    17 ratings by Goodreads