Drawing Now: Eight Propositions

Hoptman, Laura J.

ISBN 10: 0870703625 / ISBN 13: 9780870703621

Published by Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002

About this Item

Flexicover (stiff pictorial wraps), 192 pages, colour illustrations; 31 cm. Accompanies the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, October 17, 2002 to January 6, 2003. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. *** "The art of drawing flourished in the 1990s, and broke significantly from the tenets of twentieth-century modernism. Drawing Now: Eight Propositions surveys this new work, and shows drawing as no less adventurous and aesthetically satisfying than any of the more recent and seemingly more current methods of artmaking today. Carefully executed and highly finished, the drawings explored in this book - which accompanies an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art (in its temporary home in Queens, New York) in 2002-2003 - are largely representational and descriptive, sometimes with an interest in story-telling. Some show affinities with illustration, fashion, or comic strips; others are closer to industrial and commercial varieties of precision drawing, such as architectural plans and scientific renderings; still others take ideas from the traditions of ornament." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Science and art, nature and artifice; Ornament and crime: toward decoration; Drafting an architecture; Drawing happiness; Mental maps and metaphysics; Popular culture and national culture; Comics and other subcultures; Fashion, likeness, and allegory; Conclusion: the emancipation of drawing. Size: Folio.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Drawing Now: Eight Propositions
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870703625
• ISBN 13: 9780870703621
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Collectible
• Seller catalogs:
  • USA::6. Late Modern, 1945-1999
  • USA::7. Contemporary, 2000-
  • Media::Drawing
  • XXXL: Jumbo
  • XXX::COLLECTIBLES

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Synopsis

From John Currin's old-master-style Playboy bunnies to Elizabeth Peyton's fin-de-siecle portraits; from Julie Mehretu's dizzying, multilayered architectural landscapes to Shahzia Sikander's multipatterned miniature ones; from Yoshitomo Nara's angry and enigmatic little girls to Kara Walker's stereotypical negresses; and from Barry McGee's caricatures of urban graffiti to Matthew Ritchie's cosmological diagrams--drawing is back, if it ever went away. In contrast to the digitized, multimedia direction that much of contemporary art has taken in the past decade, drawing has become the major mode of expression for many of today's most important young artists. Drawing Now, published to accompany the first major survey of contemporary drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 15 years, contains more than 100 color reproductions of work by 26 international artists, both well-known and emerging, that demonstrate the fascinating variety of methods and approaches, mediums and scales, apparent in this old-again, new-again art. Accompanying essays by the exhibition's curator, Laura Hoptman, explore eight themes that she perceives in the field--Drafting & Architecture, Mental Maps & Metaphysics, Popular Culture & National Culture, Fashion, Likeness & Allegory, Envisioning a City, Science & Art, Comics & Other Subcultures, Ornament & Crime--and provide key impulses behind drawing's recent resurgence.

About the Author

Laura Hoptman is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art, a post that includes the organization of the 2004 Carnegie International. She previously served as Assistant Curator in the Department of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she was responsible for exhibitions of work by Ricci Albenda, John Brock, Maurizio Cattelan, and Rirkrit Tiravanija. She recently published a monograph on the artist Yayoi Kusama.