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Slow, deliberate drawing in a fast-paced, technology-driven contemporary art world.
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Drawing in the Present Tense

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  • Paperback

    280 pages

  • Release Date

    30 March 2023

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Summary

A richly illustrated, up-to-the-minute overview of new approaches in drawing, set in the context of recent developments of other forms of contemporary art.

This book explores the variety of ways in which contemporary artists from around the world have come to approach drawing as the primary, sometimes the sole, element of their practice, and one which is autonomous: an end in itself rather than a means to an end in another, more substantial medium. In an era of advanced technologies…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780500294932
ISBN-10:0500294933
Author:Roger Malbert, Claire Gilman
Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint:Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:280
Release Date:30 March 2023
Weight:1.64kg
Dimensions:91mm x 288mm x 325mm
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Drawing in the Present Tense by Roger Malbert - ISBN: 9780500294932
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Critics Review

‘It is when artists think aloud with line - when they draw, in other words - that their imaginations seem most nearly stripped naked. Here is a mass skinny dip of powerful minds from across the globe. Malbert and Gilman’s urgent selection demonstrates why in the 2020s the bare mark is becoming a crunch point for the whole visual art field’ - Julian Bell
’[Describes] the mesmerising variety of drawing practices undertaken by ingenious contemporary artists as they engage directly with the difficult realities of our present age’ - The Art Newspaper

About The Author

Roger Malbert

Claire Gilman is Chief Curator of The Drawing Center, New York. She has written articles for Art Journal, CAA Reviews, Documents, Frieze and October, as well as authored numerous essays for art books and museum exhibitions.

Roger Malbert is a curator and writer, formerly Head of Hayward Touring at the Southbank Centre, London 2000-2018. He has been a judge for the Jerwood Drawing Prize, and his writings have appeared in the Art Newspaper, Times Literary Supplement and Modern Painters. His book Drawing People: The Human Figure in Contemporary Art was published by Thames & Hudson in 2015.

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