Name/Title
Drawing now : eight propositionsEntry/Object ID
NC95.H67Description
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 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.Context
Accompanies the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art (in its temporary home in Queens, New York), Oct. 17, 2002-Jan. 6, 2003.Lexicon
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drawing--exhibitionsLegacy Lexicon
Category
Exhibition catalogBook Details
Author
Laura J. HoptmanPublisher
Museum of Modern ArtDate Published
2002Call No.
NC95.H67ISBN
870703625, 9780870703621LCCN
2002107967Notes
Length: 192General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
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.