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Drawing acts: studies in graphic expression and representation / David Rosand.

By: Rosand, David [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: xxv, 419 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781316637524 (paperback).Subject(s): Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472 | Leonardo, 1452-1519 da Vinci | Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 1696-1770 | Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669 | Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 | Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 | Drawing | Drawing -- ExpertisingDDC classification: 741
Contents:
1. Criticism, connoisseurship, and the phenomenology of drawing -- Ancient lines -- The desire of the line -- The phenomenology of drawing -- The physiognomy of the line -- The legacy of connoisseurship -- Beyond connoisseurship -- 2. Disegno: the invention of an art -- Alberti's finding -- invenzioni and invention -- Leonardo's discovery -- The father of the arts -- 3. The handwriting of the self: Leonardo da Vinci -- Inscribing the world -- A generation drawing -- Marginalia -- Remembered lines -- Drawing and knowing -- 4. Raphael and the calligraphy of classicism -- The circling hand -- Inflected circles -- Linear grammar/linear grace -- Connoisseurship of the line -- Penmanship -- 5. Disegni a stampa: the printed line -- The hand and the press -- The line transformed -- The sketched plate -- 6. Michelangelo: the urgent gesture -- Father of the arts -- Drawing for an other -- Making as meaning -- Drawing as prayer – 7. Rembrandt's reach -- The mime of drawing -- The physiology of style -- The body in the landscape – 8. Capriccio: the antic line -- Linear analysis: Hogarth's Serpentine -- Col sporcar si trova: Piranesi's spiral -- Invenzione to Capriccio -- Story Lines of the Tiepolo -- Epilogue: Picasso's Rehearsal.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 741 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 26/02/2024 00232075
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Drawing Acts is about drawing, both as art and act. Taking the study of drawings beyond the traditional agenda of connoisseurship, David Rosand explores the significance of the making of drawings, the meaning in the line of the draftsman, and the recreative dimension of critical response. The book focuses on drawings by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Piranesi, Tiepolo and Picasso, as well as on the history and theory of the medium itself. It seeks to establish new foundations for the criticism and appreciation of drawing, which is often considered the most revealing record of artistic creativity, offering the most direct expression of the artistic self.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-404) and index.

1. Criticism, connoisseurship, and the phenomenology of drawing -- Ancient lines -- The desire of the line -- The phenomenology of drawing -- The physiognomy of the line -- The legacy of connoisseurship -- Beyond connoisseurship -- 2. Disegno: the invention of an art -- Alberti's finding -- invenzioni and invention -- Leonardo's discovery -- The father of the arts -- 3. The handwriting of the self: Leonardo da Vinci -- Inscribing the world -- A generation drawing -- Marginalia -- Remembered lines -- Drawing and knowing -- 4. Raphael and the calligraphy of classicism -- The circling hand -- Inflected circles -- Linear grammar/linear grace -- Connoisseurship of the line -- Penmanship -- 5. Disegni a stampa: the printed line -- The hand and the press -- The line transformed -- The sketched plate -- 6. Michelangelo: the urgent gesture -- Father of the arts -- Drawing for an other -- Making as meaning -- Drawing as prayer – 7. Rembrandt's reach -- The mime of drawing -- The physiology of style -- The body in the landscape – 8. Capriccio: the antic line -- Linear analysis: Hogarth's Serpentine -- Col sporcar si trova: Piranesi's spiral -- Invenzione to Capriccio -- Story Lines of the Tiepolo -- Epilogue: Picasso's Rehearsal.

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CHOICE Review

The fruit of his prestigious scholarship in Western art drawings, this new publication of vast and profound content by Rostand (Columbia Univ.) stretches from Greek antiquity through the High Renaissance into 20th-century modern art. This book's exceptional value lies in Rostand's carefully selective vocabulary of exquisite simplicity that directly appeals to contemporary readers. The 332 drawings are accompanied by quotations from classical literature supporting Rostand's theories that "in drawings we most directly encounter the artist," and that "the very openness of the medium denies the draftsman any place to hide and exposes him to us unawares." Intensive studies of individual drawings linked together with significant quotes from classical writings deftly demonstrate the drawing process as the most direct and personal moment of creative self-expression. From the elder Pliny writing on the creativity of Appelles and Protogenes to Picasso's Vollard Suite, the reader can easily reach across generations of great artists and readily discover how the most basic impulses of creativity are retained in Master drawings throughout the centuries of Western civilization. This expansive work is so succinctly written without undue clutter of concepts or words that lower-division undergraduate readers through professionals and two-year technical program students will delight in its fresh insights. J. L. Leahy emerita, Marygrove College

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