Name/Title
Draw it with your eyes closed : the art of the art assignmentEntry/Object ID
N90.D73Description
Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: the Art of the Art Assignment, is a unique and wide-ranging anthology featuring essays, drawings, and assignments from over 100 contributors including: John Baldessari, William Pope. L, Mira Schor, Rochelle Feinstein, Bob Nickas, Chris Kraus, Liam Gillick, Amy Sillman, James Benning, and Michelle Grabner. Practical and quixotic in equal parts, the art assignment can resemble a riddle as much as a recipe, and often sounds more like a haiku, or even a joke, than a clear directive. From introductory exercises in perspective drawing to graduate-level experiments in societal transformation, the assignment coalesces ideas about what art is, how it should be taught, and what larger purpose it might, or might not, serve. The book is a written record of an evolving oral tradition. Bringing together hundreds of assignments, anti-assignments, and artworks from both teachers and students from a broad range of institutions, Draw It with Your Eyes Closed serves as an archive and an instigation, a teaching tool and a question mark, a critique and a tribute.Lexicon
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art teachers, art--study and teachingBook Details
Editor
Paper MonumentPublisher
Paper MonumentPlace Published
City
Brooklyn, New YorkState/Province
New YorkCountry
United States of AmericaContinent
North AmericaDate Published
2012Call No.
N90.D73ISBN
979757541, 9780979757549Notes
Length: 128