The Stage of Drawing Gesture and Act

by De Zegher, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9781854374882
• ISBN10: 1854374885
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-10
• Publisher: Tate

Summary

The Stage of Drawing presents remarkable works on paper selected by the artist Avis Newman from the prestigious collection of Tate, London. Including both well-known and less familiar drawings from the mid-1700s to the 1970s by British and international artists, this book, and its accompanying exhibition, offers the opportunity to view developments in drawing over the past three centuries. The subjects addressed by the book range from literary and theatrical influences on such artists as Sir Joshua Reynolds, William Blake, and Henry Fuseli, to the gestural act in 20th-century drawing as seen in the work of Natalya Goncharova, Francis Bacon, Lucio Fontana, Cy Twombly, Blinky Palermo and Andy Warhol. This book presents a unique view of drawing and its place in the history of art.

Author Biography

Catherine de Zegher is Executive Director of The Drawing Center, New York Avis Newman is a widely exhibited British artist Yves Bonnefoy, French poet and writer Norman Bryson, Chair in the History and Theory of Art, the Slade School of Fine Art, London Jean Fisher, critic and editor Michael Newman, Associate Professor of Art History, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Acknowledgments	p. 9
Overture: The Narrow Path Toward the Whole	p. 31
The Mirrored Self	p. 34
Conversation: Avis Newman/Catherine de Zegher	p. 67
The Marks, Traces, and Gestures of Drawing	p. 93
Coded Imprints	p. 112
A Walk for a Walk's Sake	p. 149
Conversation: Avis Newman/Catherine de Zegher (continued)	p. 165
Invented Bodies	p. 178
On Drawing	p. 217
Conversation: Avis Newman/Catherine de Zegher (continued)	p. 231
Chronicling Space	p. 240
The Stage of Drawing	p. 267
List of works	p. 35
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